Dietary Advice and Childhood Obesity Strategy Debate
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John Glen
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Dietary Advice and Childhood Obesity Strategy
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John Glen (Salisbury) (Con)
I welcome the Government’s words on the national child obesity strategy and the necessity of making sure that it is authoritative when it is published. However, in the light of today’s unhelpful reports, is not the real point that it is absolutely critical that that strategy deals with many of the myths out there and is truly authoritative and conclusive in the advice that it relays?
Alistair Burt
My hon. Friend is absolutely right—that is important. The strategy has been awaited, and if it is to do the job we all want it to do, it should deal with the myths and concerns that have been raised, and do so in a proper evidential manner.