The chef and food campaigner, Jamie Oliver, has offered parents a simple recipe to add 11-13 years to their children’s life expectancy: cook them fresh meals made from wholefoods.
Speaking on ITV’s Good Morning Britain, Oliver said: ‘Kids are not born and programmed to pick up a nugget, or a burger.So it’s our job to make salads, salsas, veg appealing and gorgeous. If you can learn to cook you can save money and you will possibly put 11- 13 years on your children’s life. Look at wholefoods, swap out regular pastas for whole wheat pastas. Get involved, have fun with food.
But he added: ‘While councils still allow many, many junk food vendors to be outside schools we will have a problem.While sugar can get into so much things without being taxed, and that money being put back into food education, we will have a problem.”
