Healthy eating
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Aramark has revealed plans to remove 5.5 tonnes of saturated fat from its customers’ diets by switching to 1% milk. The contract caterer will replace its 2.27 litre semi-skimmed milk packs with 1% milk across its onshore business portfolio from 1 March in a move believed to be an industry first.
Posted: 22 February 2010 | 14:48
Contract catering giant Sodexo has today announced the appointment of Matt Dawson as an ambassador for the company to help raise awareness of health issues. The ex-England rugby player and 2006 Celebrity Masterchef winner will work across all of Sodexo’s business segments...
Posted: 15 February 2010 | 11:07
Story of the week: Two major chef departures this week as rumours surround Cliveden and the news that Chris Horridge, star of the Great British Menu and head chef of the property’s Waldo’s restaurant, is to leave, while earlier in the week Michelin-starred chef Ryan Simpson – and his brigade – quit the Goose...
Posted: 12 February 2010 | 14:33
Primary school children are choosing healthier lunches following the introduction of mandatory standards for school food, according to a new report by the School Food Trust (SFT). A national study carried out by the SFT found that the lunches taken by pupils in 2009 were healthier than those of children four years earlier,
Posted: 11 February 2010 | 12:12
Rob Rees, last week appointed chairman of the School Food Trust, is calling on school headteachers to adopt a lunchtime lock-in policy in a bid to encourage healthy eating habits. The former chef, who took over the role from television cook Prue Leith, said to the Independent...
Posted: 09 February 2010 | 12:17
When it comes to improving the diet and thereby the health of the nation's children, we are all stakeholders. As parents, we wish to see our children achieve their full physical and mental potential. As taxpayers, we welcome the savings in NHS expenditure that a decrease in the rates of obesity...
Posted: 05 February 2010 | 11:41
Beverley Baker, chairman of the Local Authority Caterers Association (LACA), says we must safeguard the school meals service "LACA is delighted to have the support of Caterer and Hotelkeeper for this high-profile campaign to draw the attention of the incoming Government ...
Posted: 04 February 2010 | 17:09
The School Food Trust has awarded a Doncaster primary school £5,000 in recognition of its efforts to promote healthy school lunches. Bentley New Village Primary School received the cheque in a special assembly attended by Civic Mayor for Doncaster, Ros Jones as part of the SFT’s ‘Million Meals ...
Posted: 04 February 2010 | 16:35
Story of the week: Spanish celebrity chef Ferran Adrià dominated the news this week with the announcement at Madrid Fusion that he is to close his three-Michelin-starred restaurant El Bulli for two years. Still on the theme of iconic chefs, French patissier-chocolatier Pierre Herme...
Posted: 29 January 2010 | 16:01
A London council is considering the implementation of a ‘No Fry Zone’ around its 65 primary schools in a bid to curb the growing obesity trend in the region’s children. Lewisham Council is to meet later this month to discuss the proposal after a report found that a quarter of 10-year-olds...
Posted: 27 January 2010 | 16:13
‘Grow your own school dinners’ is Mayor of London Boris Johnson’s suggestion to help tackle childhood obesity in the capital. Nearly one in four children in the city is classed as obese. This figure rises to one in three by the time they are aged 11. Fast food exclusion zones around schools...
Posted: 26 January 2010 | 10:41
Leading doctors have called for a ban on trans fats as part of a manifesto to improve the nation’s health.
The Faculty for Public Health and the Royal Society for Public Health, which together represent almost 10,000 health specialists, made the recommendation as part of a 12-point plan to improve health...
Posted: 18 January 2010 | 11:19
The Conservatives are to call on restaurants and retailers to reduce their food portions in a bid to curb obesity. The party revealed the aim in its new green paper on health, called A Healthier Nation.
Posted: 13 January 2010 | 16:15
Just 1% of packed lunches for primary schoolchildren come up to the nutritional standards set for school meals in England, a new report has found. A team of researchers from Leeds University examined 1,300 schoolchildren's lunchboxes and found that healthy foods like fruit and vegetables...
Posted: 12 January 2010 | 10:29
Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has won a prestigious US award for his efforts to tackle the obesity epidemic affecting much of the developed world. The 2010 TED Prize, a $100,000 (£62,445) grant and “an opportunity to realise a wish to change the world”, was awarded to Oliver...
Posted: 08 January 2010 | 16:13
The Government’s Food 2030 strategy published yesterday by Defra has been welcomed by the School Food Trust (SFT), who praised its emphasis on school meals. The strategy highlights school lunches within a series of actions aimed at encouraging healthier, more sustainable diets...
Posted: 06 January 2010 | 12:17
The industry can look back on 2009 with relief that predictions of widespread carnage had been exaggerated. Many businesses have proved resourceful in the face of economic meltdown, but the year hasn't been without its casualties, as Daniel Thomas reports.
Posted: 23 December 2009 | 12:24
Chefs are the unhealthiest workers in Britain, according to new research. The study of 3,000 workers by healthcare cash plan provider Medicash found that despite working in a kitchen, the average chef has 12 snacks of crisps, chocolate bars or biscuits each week...
Posted: 09 December 2009 | 12:09
Calorie information could soon be a regular feature on menus across the UK according to the Food Standards Agency (FSA) following ‘productive’ trials with 21 catering companies over the summer. According to Gillian Merron, Minister for Public Health, the first group of businesses ...
Posted: 07 December 2009 | 13:17
Obesity in children may be ‘levelling off’ according to a report published today by the National Heart Forum, giving healthy school meals campaigners a spark of hope. New data analysis found that the rate of increase in obesity levels across the country may be in decline, following a relentless rise ...
Posted: 03 November 2009 | 16:29
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