What are the most important things in a student’s everyday life at school?

2. What are the most important things in a student’s everyday life at school? Is food important?

3. killer facts In the last decade, the number of school children in Britain who are overweight or obese has nearly doubled. One third of our kids are now too fat. • One quarter of teenagers are already obese. • 14% of boys and 17% of girls between the ages of two and 15 are overweight. • Nearly one quarter of adults are already obese. • Kids with fat parents are twice as likely to become obese. • Kids who are obese by the age of 12 are 85% more likely to remain obese into adult life. • Kids who are obese in their early teens are twice as likely to die by the age of 50.

4. key figures About 3.25 million school dinners get served every day. Meals cost £1.54 in primary and £1.62 in secondary school, 4% more than a year ago. About half of the cost goes on labour.Last March, the government pledged £280 million over three years for school meals. The estimated capital cost of refurbishing school kitchens so they can prepare food from scratch again is £290 million, but this only covers schools that already have a kitchen. The estimated cost of installing new kitchens in schools would be £350 million. Many kitchens are also badly in need of an upgrade and new equipment to enable them to handle fresh ingredients.This autumn, the government pledged further funds to subsidise ingredients for healthy meals, to set up a regional network of training kitchens for dinner ladies, to build kitchens in schools that currently have no facilities and to enable secondary school children to learn to cook at school.

5. What do you normally have for lunch at school? • From 1 to 10, rank the relevance of food according to the following parameters: • a. food as relevant in the acquisition of knowledge • b. cooking as a relevant part of schools’ syllabuses • c. parent’s involved in teaching their kids how to eat healthy • How will changing the kids’ diet lead them to a healthier life?

7. Why does it have to last so long? my manifesto Local and national government need to come up with a ten-year strategy and some real money to re-educate people about proper eating habits. This is what I think needs to happen now: 1. In schools: make cooking and life skills classes compulsory for all kids so they learn about food and good eating habits while they're young.2. For teachers: recruit and train new cookery teachers, otherwise the new right that kids have to cookery lessons just isn’t going to happen.3. For heads: empower heads to make every school a junk food free zone.4. For parents: educate parents and help them to understand the basics of family cooking and responsible nutrition.5. For dinner ladies: invest in dinner ladies with proper training and enough paid hours to cook their food with fresh ingredients. my manifesto Local and national government need to come up with a ten-year strategy and some real money to re-educate people about proper eating habits. This is what I think needs to happen now: 1. In schools: make cooking and life skills classes compulsory for all kids so they learn about food and good eating habits while they're young.2. For teachers: recruit and train new cookery teachers, otherwise the new right that kids have to cookery lessons just isn’t going to happen.3. For heads: empower heads to make every school a junk food free zone.4. For parents: educate parents and help them to understand the basics of family cooking and responsible nutrition.5. For dinner ladies: invest in dinner ladies with proper training and enough paid hours to cook their food with fresh ingredients. 6. Commit to a ten-year strategic plan and fund a long-term public campaign to get people back on to a proper diet and empower/persuade the public to make better choices. With obesity costing the NHS more than smoking, it seems logical that a similar campaign should be appropriate. Are people wrongly educated? Why? Is it really worth the money it’ll cost? Wouldn’t it be better to teach Biology and Chemistry focusing on food theoretically? Shouldn’t kids have the chance to eat some chocolate as well? Is cooking as important as family chats, some TV together and being informed about academic situations? Cooking salads for dozens of kids is very hard work! 6. Commit to a ten-year strategic plan and fund a long-term public campaign to get people back on to a proper diet and empower/persuade the public to make better choices. With obesity costing the NHS more than smoking, it seems logical that a similar campaign should be appropriate.  To what extent is dieting properly an important issue for governments as Cancer, AIDS, poverty or economy?

9. Schoolchildren shun healthy school meals The campaign to revolutionise canteens kickstarted by Jamie Oliver three years ago has made only a marginal difference to pupils' eating habits, figures reveal

10. Being our country the first in child obesity in the world. What are some possible causes of this problem in Mexico? • Could a strategy like the one proposed by Oliver, apply in Mexican public schools? Why? • What changes would it imply? • Design a proposal suitable for Mexican elementary schools that tackles directly the obesity problem in our country.