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School Food Strategy launches

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23rd Mar 2010 - 00:00
The Strategy sets the agenda for school food for the next four years and is all-encompassing covering breakfast clubs, mid-morning breaks, dinners and cookery clubs.

Contractor Brookwood celebrates top employer listing

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22nd Mar 2010 - 00:00
The only contract caterer to be listed, Brookwood ranked 54th in the list, up from the 81st position the company achieved in 2008 award. Among the reasons the company won its place is the effort inves

Campaign urges better nursery school food

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22nd Mar 2010 - 00:00
The campaign, run by The Soil Association and funded by organic baby food supplier Organix, launches a report today calling for the introduction of mandatory standards to ensure high quality food is s

Healthy eating goes as students count cost

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18th Mar 2010 - 00:00
The 2010 Sodexo University Lifestyle Survey Video Report from Sodexo Sodexo on Vimeo. A vast majority of students (42%) are changing their diet in order to cut down their spending, including a large n

PepsiCo plans to remove sugary drinks from schools by 2012

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17th Mar 2010 - 00:00
The soft drinks company will work with its bottlers, vending companies and third-party distributors -- in collaboration with parents, community leaders and schools officials around the world -- to off

Fast food ban reduces childhood obesity

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17th Mar 2010 - 00:00
On 24 March 2009 Waltham Forest Council became the first local authority in the UK to ban fast food outlets from opening within 400 metres of schools, leisure centres and parks.

Fruit is top snack for adults and children

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16th Mar 2010 - 00:00
A major new report from YouGov SixthSense on the snacking habits of adults and children in the UK reveals that over half of adults in the UK (55%) snack on fresh fruit in between meals.

School dinner numbers up 75% during promotion

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12th Mar 2010 - 00:00
The pilot, which offered children in 20 local primary schools all meals for £1, saw school meal take-up rise from 6,360 a week to an average of 11,242 during the first half of the spring term.