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In the last decade, the number of school children who are overweight or obese has nearly doubled. One third of our kids are now too fat.

• One quarter of teenagers are already obese.
• 14% of boys and 17% of girls between the ages of two and 15 are overweight.
• Nearly one quarter of adults are already obese.
• Kids with fat parents are twice as likely to become obese.
• Kids who are obese by the age of 12 are 85% more likely to remain obese into adult life.
• Kids who are obese in their early teens are twice as likely to die by the age of 50.

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key figures

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About 3.25 million school dinners get served every day. Meals cost £1.54 in primary and £1.62 in secondary school, 4% more than a year ago. About half of the cost goes on labour.

Last March, the government pledged £280 million over three years for school meals. The estimated capital cost of refurbishing school kitchens so they can prepare food from scratch again is £290 million, but this only covers schools that already have a kitchen. The estimated cost of installing new kitchens in schools would be £350 million. Many kitchens are also badly in need of an upgrade and new equipment to enable them to handle fresh ingredients.

This autumn, the government pledged further funds to subsidise ingredients for healthy meals, to set up a regional network of training kitchens for dinner ladies, to build kitchens in schools that currently have no faclities and to enable secondary school children to learn to cook at school.

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