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Diet link to bad behaviour A survey of more than 10,000 children funded by Organix found children who regularly ate junk food were nearly three times more likely to behave badly than those who avoided it completely

Oliver’s plan fails as pupils snub healthy school meals Most papers report on figures obtained by the Liberal Democrats yesterday which show the Government is almost a million children below its 2009 target for encouraging more children to take up the healthy school meals

Health warning on lunch boxes Research carried out by the School Food Trust shows children taking a school meal are more likely to be eating vegetables and fruit and filling up on bread than children eating packed lunches.

Free fruit at school has little benefit says study published in health journal A Government scheme launched three years ago to give children free fruit has failed to improve children’s health.

Worried parents are paying for children to get fit at gym Helen Nugent reports that child membership of Britain’s major private leisure chains has increased by nearly 40% over the past three years.

Fruit fools Ruki Sayid reports on drinks that are bad for kids.

School nurses go in to class The Mirror reports that Ministers will be told every school should have its own nurse

Huge increase in cases of diabetes among children A number of papers report on a study carried out by the University of Bristol which found that the number of very young children with Type 1 diabetes has risen dramatically in the last 20 years.

Fat pupils on fish oils make a mental leap A number of papers report on research carried out at St George’s Hospital, southwest London, which found overweight children who took fatty acid dietary supplements showed dramatic improvements in concentration, reading, memory and mental agility.

Britain is the worst country in the industrialised world in which to be a child, closely followed by The UNICEF charity looked at 40 indicators to gauge the lives of children in 21 economically advanced nations -- the first study of its kind -- and found Britain's children were among the poorest and most neglected