Image by Matt from London The Natural Health Service might sound like some dodgy alternative medicine clinic, but it’s the name of a new scheme to get people fit by taking advantage of their local parks. A study by Natural England found that you’ve a …
With Prue Leith – renowned cook, writer and Schools Food Trust honcho – at the head of the table, last night’s Obesity: The socio-economic impact of our bulging waistlines debate inevitably focused on school interventions: the uphill struggle against junk food and ceaseless efforts to …
Got strong opinions about the socio-economic impact of obesity? As part of the ongoing Ideas Exchange series of dinner/debates at Hoxton Apprentice training restaurant, restaurateur, caterer, TV cook, broadcaster and food writer Prue Leith will be on hand tonight to discuss and debate just that. …
Image / Waqas Ahmed London restaurant chain The Real Greek has become the first in Britain to follow our didactic Government’s latest anti-obesity programme, by displaying calorie information for all their dishes. Perhaps unsurprisingly, being a Greek restaurant, the meals are a little heavy, calorie …
this lunchbox is a thing of the past. should all lunchboxes join it? It’s a crazy plan, but it just might work. The London Borough of Newham is one of 3 areas in the country piloting a new scheme to provide free school meals to …
There’s no money for three rape crisis centres, but the Mayor has announced £15.5m of investment (with another £15m hopefully from the private sector) in grassroots sporting projects across the capital. Plans include six boxing academies, two mobile swimming pools and a “street athletics” programme …
Hackney may be the 2012 borough, but it seems that the council still can’t afford floodlights for the London Fields Lido. That’s probably ‘cos they’ve sent 20 teachers to Arizona to learn about poverty. Chunkiness is costing Lewisham and Greenwich councils in excess of £70 …
Waltham Forest council is angling to tackle child obesity through planning regulations, implementing an exclusion zone for fast food shops around schools, youth centres and parks. It’s hoped that making it more difficult for chicken shops and others of their ilk to open up in …
