January 2012 Press Cuttings

BBC News, breakfast show 5th January
Interview with Ursula Arens on vitamin supplements

Western Mail 5th January
Welsh health experts reject diet magnate’s plan for slim pupils to get extra marks
A controversial suggestion from a diet magnate that schoolchildren should get better marks if they stay slim should be avoided in Wales experts have warned. The unorthodox suggestion was pitched in a book by DR Dukan who founded the Dukan diet as a way of reducing high rates of childhood obesity in France, and has attracted widespread condemnation. The plans would mean pupils could be allowed an extra “weight option” in their final exams of France’s A-Level equivalent, the baccalaureate – under which they would earn extra points if they kept BMI of between 18-25. Jacqui Lowdon paediatric Dietian of the BDA said: “It’s not a case of having a ‘healthy BMI’ of 18-25, you have to chart it and plot it on a graph so it’s not as straightforward. And what happens when children leave school? Research has shown that when children leave school having been quite active give up exercise. With a proposal like this you are not teaching habits for the long term.” She added that those with a healthy BMI don’t necessarily have a healthy diet as it’s dependant on other factors and that could set children up to fail.

Salford online 2nd January
Valentine’s Day 2012: Be Chocolate Aware. The BDA Essential Guide to Chocolate
With Valentine’s Day 2012 around the corner, Dieitian and British Dietetic Association (BDA) Spokesperson, Anna Raymond, gives her views and advice on the number one selling gift for the occasion – Chocolate!
http://www.salfordonline.com/lifestyles.php?func=viewdetails&vdetails=33002

BBC Radio Three Counties 2nd January
Interview with Ursula Arens re the government’s Change4Life initiative

BBC Radio five 2nd January
Interview with Lucy Jones re the government’s Change4Life initiative

BBC London radio 2nd January
Interview with Azmina Govindji re the government’s Change4Life initiative