We Are What We Eat
Last November Jamie Oliver, the high-profile chef, was awarded an honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of General Practitioners at a special ceremony at the College. He spoke eloquently and with considerable insight into the need for interprofessional collaboration, as well as for support and resources from central government, in tackling what is being described, increasingly, as the demographic timebomb of childhood obesity. The Fellowship was awarded in recognition of the work of the Jamie Oliver Foundation, and his efforts to improve the quality of food provided in schools. You can probably remember those dreadful scenes of mothers, whose children were (shock, horror!) offered more fruit and vegetables at school dinners, furiously pushing fish and chips through the school fence for their not-so little darlings. There is much to be done. The …