L7

Obesity

Junk food

Chubby

Heart disease

High blood pressure

Getting fat

Coach potato

Crisps – family sized packets

Sedentary lifestyle

Lazy

School dinners

Fatty/ unhealthy food

 

 

The Food Revolution is about children’s food

Children can’t accept the new healthier menu

It’s hard to create innovation (hard to change the minds of the children)

The challenge is to persuade 20,000 kids to eat the healthier food

London – borough of Greenwich

60 head dinner ladies

 

It is often said that in the UK there is the highest rate of obesity epidemic, for instance ready meals and takeaways.

 

To have better concentration in afternoon classes, children need a hot meal at lunchtime.

 

It means that the food which they eat at school is the only nutritious food children get in day.

 

You could make a schedule of the menu to include fruit and vegetables, remove junk food.

 

Nutritionist

 

By 2025, it is said that just under half the people living in the UK will be obese. 2 out of 5 people will have developed obesity by 2025.

 

 

Please write a short report stating your paraphased facts and making recommendations on the problem of childhood obesity in the UK.