Health and Vitality

  • Healthy school meals increase

    THE NUMBER of children having healthy school meals in England has risen for a fourth year running – with an estimated 167,000 more children using their school dining rooms last year.   New figures, reported by local authorities and published…

  • Subway targets schools

    SUBWAY IS REPORTEDLY in talks with a head teacher to open a branch at a school in Manchester.   According to the Manchester Evening News the food chain is in talks with Parrs Wood High School in Didsbury over the possibility…

  • Help to develop gluten-free market

    NEW SERVICES and an accreditation scheme have been launched to help caterers get to grips with new laws around gluten-free claims and take advantage of the £100m gluten-free market.   Coeliac UK, the charity, has produced a catering training package…

  • Government to tackle sustainable diets

    THE FOODSERVICE sector has a “major role” to play in influencing consumer choice and shifting people to more sustainable, healthier diets.   New government project also commits to debate on GM   That’s according to a new government study into…

  • Meat and veg for rich, lab steaks and veg pills for the rest

    NEW REPORT shows how food choices will change if industry and government don’t get to grips with climate change.   UK consumers could be left with steaks grown in laboratories and pills instead of vegetables if more isn’t done to…

  • In the mood for change? Footprint Forum: Mood Food online report

    The March Footprint Forum in association with Partners In Purchasing tackled the role of food in staff performance and wellbeing. And while the idea of ‘mood food’ is far from mainstream, more and more big businesses are looking at the…

  • Veggie restaurants up 50% in five years

    THE NUMBER of vegetarian restaurants in the UK has continued to grow, with 30 premium restaurants now in operation across the country, up 50% since 2007.     Sales of vegetarian foods have also increased, rising by 7.7% from £730.4m…

  • Sandwiches need clearer labelling

    SANDWICHES CAN contain a fairly thick slice of daily guidelines amounts of fat and salt, according to a new report by Which?   The research, which focussed on sandwiches bought through retailers, found that contents varied so widely that a…

  • 50% of teachers say kids suffer from malnutrition

    INCREASING NUMBERS of pupils are coming into school “hungry”, “dirty” and “struggling to concentrate” since the recession.   Almost half the teachers quizzed in a survey by youth charity The Prince’s Trust and the Times Educational Supplement regularly witness pupils…

  • New health & wellbeing training

    THE BRITISH Nutrition Foundation (BNF) has launched an online training package for use in corporate health and wellbeing programmes.   An ‘Introduction to Healthy Eating and Nutrition’ is designed to verse employees in the basics of nutrition and healthy lifestyles. It…