Nursery World - Join the fight against fat

With the Government’s obesity strategy leaving much to be desired, early years managers may have to take the matter into their own hands, reports Hannah Crown

'This is a war. If you are worried about the thing that hurts British people the most, it ain’t ISIS,’ TV chef Jamie Oliver said recently, describing how one in ten children is obese by the time they reach primary school, and one in five by the time they leave. There were high hopes that the obesity strategy, drafted under David Cameron’s premiership, would lead the fight against fat. Yet, according to Channel 4’s Dispatches, it was cut by two thirds before being published by new Prime Minister Theresa May. Hard-hitting pledges were watered down, and others, such as tackling promotional deals in supermarkets, removed altogether (see box).

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