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The government is planning its biggest overhaul in over a decade by banning deep-fried foods, cutting down on sugar, and putting more fruit and veg on the menu. It's part of a push to tackle childhood obesity - but what do people actually make of it? Is it a recipe for success or a bit hard to swallow? Leeds locals have been reflecting on the initial plans and their school dinner memories.
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00:00In other countries kids have much more balanced meals for their school dinners and they always look great and I
00:09remember from school people always wanting chips and sausage rolls and you know over more healthy options so no I
00:15think it's a good thing.
00:15Good nutrition starts at an early age and if children have good eating habits when they are young it will
00:21stay with them for a long time. My mum used to tell us you are what you eat and so
00:27we had to eat healthy food.
00:28Food is like better than medicine in a way. Food's your fuel.
00:34It's important for that to be nutritious and so that kids can have at least one opportunity a day to
00:39get in like vitamins, nutrients. I definitely remember being at school and being like god I wish I had turkey
00:44twizzlers but I think in hindsight looking back it was probably a good idea that I was eating healthy at
00:51school because that gave me an opportunity to have some fresh fruit when at home I would just refuse.
00:56It seems to be more obese, obeseness nowadays so healthy food. I think kids should get more exercise as well.
01:07It's a positive change in the right direction because there's like a lot of statistics show like from some people
01:15can't handle deep fried food because of the oils. When they're heated at a certain temperature they can become carcinogenic.
01:22At primary school they were quite good apart from the cabbage which they overcooked and it was like mush.
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