Pea Soup, Rye Bread and Fresh Fruit is on the menu today (free for all school children in the city of Tampere and everywhere else in Finland, as it has been for the last 50 years by law).
Free school meals is not about tackling poverty, it is about PUBLIC HEALTH - having a healthy population.
Professor Pekka Puska the Director General of the National Public health Institute in Finland
drew attention to the conclusions presented at the symposium by Professor Nils Stenby of the Department of Pathology, University Hospital MAS, University of Lund, Sweden, of a broad WHO study on young subjects who had died violent deaths. The study showed that atherosclerosis, in the form of fatty streak, develops in all individuals early in life, in their second decade, and which appears related to dietary and other lifestyle aspects. "This is a significant study showing that disease is traceable back to childhood," said Puska.
Wales should learn and act on this finding.
Annette Strauch wrote...
Welsh schools offer chips, almost every day, sweet drinks, chocolate bars & crisps! I have visited some schools; there might be other schools who do fresh salads, fresh fish(?), yoghurt instead of cakes, etc.
Posted by: Annette Strauch | July 26, 2007 8:02 PM