Out to lunch

Jamie's School Dinners may have been landmark TV but this and similar initiatives run into trouble with children's food preferences, according to a study published in Critical Public Health. Its authors take a socio-ecological approach to assessing how primary school dining halls can contribute to improving children's nutrition related behaviour. DH proudly announced last month that high street restaurants (amongst which children's favourite McDonalds) have signed up to the Public Health Responsibility Deal calorie labelling programme.