Government makes cookery classes compulsory
The government has announced that it will make cookery classes in schools compulsory for 11 to 14 year olds as part of its initiative to tackle the increasing obesity epidemic.
Teaching unions have welcomed the decision to try and instil healthy eating habits at an early age, as obesity among school children continues to grow.
A report last year revealed that if obesity continues to develop at the current rate a quarter of children will be obese by 2050.
Talking to the Today programme, schools secretary Ed Balls, said: "I think the discussion we have had about obesity has shown all of us that if as a society we don’t act now we are going to have real problems in the next few decades for adults and also for young people."
He continued that the classes will aim to give children basic food skills that will "set them up for adult life".
Some 800 teachers are now being trained for the classes which will be officially introduced in 2011.
Elsewhere, the government has abandoned a ban on junk-food advertising before 21:00 GMT which will protect over £200 per year in advertising revenue.
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