LAST month, the Education Ministry banned the sale of 12 categories of foods and drinks in schools (“Junk and processed food banned in schools”, The Star, Sept 26; online at bit.ly/46VkEJh).
School canteens should indeed be offering healthier choices of foods and drinks to the children. This is not a new issue, and many efforts have been made to improve the situation – in vain, it would seem. I first highlighted that school canteens were selling non-nutritious foods when I first started working as a nutritionist in 1973. Some 52 years later, we do not appear to be any closer to resolving the problem.
