A very good idea to help in obesity battle

SO many social, health, and environmental issues are rooted in the food we eat that it is time to reconsider our habits.

It is time we thought outside the box and considered anything that would inculcate a habit of responsible, healthy eating in our children, support ethical producers who grow food that could be the basis of a life-long healthy diet. If those changes were to include provisions to make sure that the estimated 20% of children who go to school hungry each day get at least one good meal a day, then all the better.

Those ideas, ideas that seem radical only in a country as hidebound as this, were advanced by the Green Party yesterday when it launched a policy advocating that school dinners be offered to tackle the growing obesity epidemic.