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Opinion: Stop the soft sell of junk
By Richard Watts, campaigns director, Sustain,
Nursery World,
31 July 2008
It's not new to say that children's diets are in crisis, while 92 per cent of children consume too much saturated fat, 86 per cent consume too much sugar, and 96 per cent do not eat enough fruit and vegetables.
In the past ten years, obesity in children aged two to five nearly doubled, and it is predicted that unless action is taken, a fifth of boys and a third of girls will be obese by 2020. The junk food industry spends hundred of millions of pounds pushing fatty, salty, sugary food to children, and the methods they use are...
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