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Brain food

By Stephen Pincock

Published: March 26 2005 02:00 | Last updated: March 26 2005 02:00

Like many other people with young children, I watched chef Jamie Oliver's new television series about school dinners with the kind of horrified fascination that train wrecks can engender.

The shocking state of canteen food highlighted by the programme has rightly prompted national debate in the UK. Children simply cannot grow up healthy if they're allowed to eat a daily supply of chips, frozen pizza and grotesque meat-based products - a fact that's all the more pertinent in this age of obesity.

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