Junk food tempation everywhere
Blackpool schoolchildren are surrounded by temptation when it comes to junk food, after a new study shows that there are 40 fast food outlets in the resort for every secondary school.
That is almost twice the national average of 23, and puts the town second in the national average, just behind Brighton and Hove.
The new research, released by the School Food Trust, ranks all 149 local authority's in order of fast food outlets per school.
Judy Hargadon, chief executive of the School Food Trust said the time had come to take action: "At the moment school canteens have to compete with a myriad of take-aways, chippies, and sweet shops for pupils' dinner money.
"We all know that some children will go for chips five times a week if they are allowed to. The problem is that this is damaging their long term health, and is also threatening the viability of school lunch services.
Over the coming months we will be looking at ways that schools and local authorities can combat the temptation posed by junk food outlets."
11:00am Friday 28th March 2008
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