Furthermore, 20% of boys and 23% of girls are either overweight or obese. If you're struggling with re-balancing your children's diet, check out Safefood's excellent website. They've recently added two new sections that focus on practical and realistic healthy eating advice for parents.

I love the children's section with its interactive games and projects that makes learning about food and nutrition lots of fun. For parents, you'll find great features like a lunch-box section which generates a weekly menu of balanced and healthy lunch-box ideas, and can be changed to suit a child's likes and dislikes.

There are also ideas for keeping a food diary to assess your kids' own diets, plus tips for after school-eating and improving your shopping. Check out www. safefoodonline. com or call 1850 404 567 for more information.