A Scottish perspective on world events (junk food,health,school dinners,jamie oliver,feed me better)

SCHOOLCHILDREN face losing out on hot meals at Friday lunchtimes in the latest bid to tackle the city council's financial crisis.

WOMEN who eat healthy food while pregnant or breast-feeding can give their children a life-long taste for it, researchers have found.

CITY MP Nigel Griffiths today announced he will put a Bill before the Westminster parliament to ban junk food advertising aimed at children.

HEARTS FC mascots Teenie and Tynie joined pupils of Castleview Primary School to help launch Edinburgh's Breakfast Club initiative.

SCHOOLCHILDREN should be locked in during lunch breaks to keep them away from junk food, a report into healthy eating said yesterday.

MY FAMILY eats dinner together almost every night. I realise when I tell you this I am probably conjuring up a scene of Waltonesque conviviality: a clutch of clean, happy faces gathered round a sturdy table, digging in enthusiastically to homebaked...

EVAN Currie said goodbye to packed lunches and tucked into chicken fajitas yesterday as he joined 37,000 of Scotland's youngest pupils at the start of a free school meals experiment aimed at tackling increasing childhood obesity.

JAMIE Oliver, the mockney celebrity chef, is understood to be planning a chain of high street cookery shops, according to industry sources.

SHORT-TERM programmes discouraging children from consuming fizzy drinks have no long-term impact on their obesity, experts said last night.

MANY teenage girls who are worried about their weight are not eating enough calories for their age group, a survey out today says.