Now Peer Pressure Is On the Menu As Battle Continues for the Healthy Lunch

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A radical food initiative will be launched at a secondary school this week with the aim of getting pupils to hear the healthy eating message from their own peers. Schools across Britain modified their menus after television programmes by chef Jamie Oliver exposed poor nutrition in many popular dinners.

But the result was a fall in take-up of school dinners as pupils shunned salads and yoghurt and headed for chip shops.

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Now Peer Pressure Is On the Menu As Battle Continues for the Healthy Lunch

Parents even passed chips through the fence at one school where pupils were banned from leaving the premises at lunchtime.

The viability of Denbighshire's entire school meals service was threatened because so many pupils deserted school canteens.

Now a Wrexham school is taking a different approach, selecting pupils...

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