{"id":2324,"date":"2022-10-20T00:40:12","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T00:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=2324"},"modified":"2022-10-20T00:40:12","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T00:40:12","slug":"experts-warn-of-major-impact-on-childrens-health-without-proper-nutrition-at-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=2324","title":{"rendered":"Experts warn of major impact on children\u2019s health without proper nutrition at school"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Children in the UK will be more susceptible to major health problems in the future without \u201curgent\u201d action to ensure they eat a more nutritious diet at school, experts have warned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both food insecurity and poor diets could leave British schoolchildren with \u201cdramatically\u201d worse long-term health outcomes, leading paediatricians and nutritionists have said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It comes as our\u00a0Feed the Future\u00a0campaign, in partnership with a coalition of organisations coordinated by the Food Foundation, reaches 215,000 signatories to a petition urging the prime minister, Liz Truss, to extend\u00a0free school meals\u00a0to all families on universal credit in England. Around 800,000 in England live in households that rely on universal credit but miss out on free school meals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/children-health-school-meals-nutrition-b2205918.html\">Independent.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children in the UK will be more susceptible to major health problems in the future without \u201curgent\u201d action to ensure&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2325,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nutrition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2326,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324\/revisions\/2326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}