the best place to start is in schools.

Jamie Oliver, who has made his avowed life's mission to get children to eat healthy food, was recently interviewed on the TV program, This Week by Christiane Amanpour who asked him about the motivation for his campaign to make school food in the United Kingdom more nutritious.

Jamie who has become a celebrity in America following his program Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution stressed the importance of food education. The important point that Jamie Oliver makes is that if you really want to change the eating habits of children the best place to start is in schools.

By virtue of the fact that children are at school for more than half the year, if you can get them to eat healthily over there they are likely to take their eating habits home with them. There's also the opportunity to educate them about food at school and teach them how to cook healthily too.

Jamie who has been going on about changing school food for seven years now said that while the concept of healthy thing was 'not rocket science', changing attitudes of people was extremely tough. At Ukmedix News we have seen plenty of research which shows that changing eating habits of children is difficult and that the earlier children learn to eat healthily the better.

If a child gets used to eating fatty chips at every single meal they will find it extremely difficult to go without them in later life, but if on the other hand they get used to eating a piece of fruit before or after every meal they will get used to that too. Jamie said that when you take away chips from children it is comparable to "messing with their religion."

There is no time which is too soon to educate children about what is healthy and what is not. Parents need to be made aware that the biggest influence on the health of their children will come from the food they feed them and the food which they are fed at school. Parents need to lobby schools to provide healthy food and to cut out the fried, fatty and unhealthy stuff.

Ukmedix News hopes that the UK government gives more thought to Jaime's ideas and actually does something to reduce the ever rising obesity figures.