Nutrition
School dinners are not the real problem
Why on earth has Michael Gove commissioned yet another report on school dinners? Are they under orders to come up with something significantly different from what Jamie Oliver told the last government?
By Susan Elkin | Notebook, Opinion | Friday, 6 July 2012 at 2:00 am
Are you Mom Enough? Putting parenting choices under the microscope
Much ink has already been spilled on the recent, controversial, TIME magazine cover which features a photograph of a 26-year-old woman breastfeeding her three-year-old son. Some advocates have said that this is brilliant for the promotion of Attachment Parenting, with others saying that this sensationalizes the issue. But what does the cover – and the reactions to it – tell us about parenting culture more broadly?
By Dr. Charlotte Faircloth | Health, Notebook, Opinion | Friday, 18 May 2012 at 4:00 am
Waitrose launch a £3.50 lettuce leaf
Even the anorexic in me can’t get my head around this.
As one of ‘those’ people who, if forced to lunch on the go, will stand and scrutinise the nutritional contents of rows and rows of sandwiches, salads and sushi boxes (if I haven’t already memorised them all), I have witnessed a noticable amount of shrinkage [...]
By Ilona Burton | Health, Notebook | Monday, 16 May 2011 at 5:50 pm
Ban cheddar cheese sandwiches – MP
John Spellar, Labour MP for Warley and former defence and transport minister, asked a curious written question that was answered on Wednesday:
Hospitals: Food
Mr Spellar: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether he plans to ban the sale of (a) tea and coffee with sugar and (b) cheddar cheese sandwiches in hospitals. [5340]
Anne Milton: No.
Thanks to [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Saturday, 10 July 2010 at 5:54 pm
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