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| Helping Children Make Healthy Choices Our mission is to help children make healthy choices through our work with schools, with parents and engaging the community Obesity - No Easy Fixes Daily Reports continue to warn of the obesity crisis.
This situation is no surprise to us at Life Education. As the UK’s largest children’s health education charity, our educators are in daily contact with
If the government is to achieve its target to stem the rise in childhood obesity (for under 11 year olds) by 2010, we still have very far to go. If we are to stand any hope of meeting this target, we need first to stop the culture of blame and knee jerk reactions in response to this. Attempts to reform the attitudes of parents, shame the fast food industry into changing its menus or simply enforcing change to meals provided by schools to healthy options are bound to fail. What we need are policies and practice that recognise children’s ability to make their own health choices given the collective support of those that have responsibility for their health and well-being.
If children see us blaming each other for our inconsistent messages, they will remain confused rather than helped.
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