The Health Select Committee has published its report on obesity and highlighted children's diets as a key area to tackling the problem.
The report makes a total of 69 conclusions and recommendations, with a number of these specifically aimed at child health and nutrition. These include:
- tighter controls on advertising and promotion of foods to children
- nutrition in schools to be improved, including government guidance telling schools not to accept sponsorship from firms selling 'junk food' or to install snack vending machines.
- a minimum of three hours physical activity a week for children
- measure children's BMI annually.
The Government stated that it is addressing obesity in the White Paper on Public Health, due to be published in the summer. It also said that it has extended the consultation period for this, due to finish at the end of May, until the end of June.
The Select Committee Report is available in HTML format or as a PDF file.
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