Author: Lala

TV | The Secret Life of 4 Year Olds

Channel 4 This documentary follows ten four-year-olds as they meet at nursery, exploring how children make and break friendships, share, stand up for themselves, and find their place in a new social group.

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Row over sugar firms’ links to scientists

BBC News website | James Gallagher Health editor | 12 February 2015 A row has erupted about links between the sugar industry and scientists who advise government on obesity. Campaigners argue the scientists are so...

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Sugar: spinning a web of influence

British Medical Journal (BMJ) 2015  | Jonathan Gornall, freelance journalist | 11 February 2015 Public health scientists are involved with the food companies being blamed for the obesity crisis,...

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‘Focus on fitness not fatness’

BBC News | Health 10 February 2015 | Dr Gavin Sandercock | A children’s fitness expert from the University of Essex In this week’s Scrubbing Up, Dr Gavin Sandercock argues there has been a well-meaning but...

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NCMP Local Authority Profile

The National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) measures the height and weight of over one-million children aged 4-5 and 10-11 years each year in primary schools in England.

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