Should school canteens ditch desserts?

Some people say schools should stop giving puddings after lunch.

In the UK, children at primary schools eat an average of three school meals a week. This is usually a main meal followed by a dessert. Action on Sugar, a group of health experts at Queen Mary University of London, in England, are worried that children are eating too much sugar. They estimate that if you eat a cake at lunchtime at school, a chocolate bar on the way home and one or two biscuits in the evening, you could be eating up to 92.5 grams of sugar a day. That’s almost four times the recommended daily sugar limit for children. Action on Sugar say that school dinners could be contributing to children going over their daily sugar limits. However some people think it’s fine for children to have a…

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