For sure, Elizabeth, but changing habits is what it's all about. We are already sucked into the petty offerings of an industry that has no concern for children's health, let alone ours. It''s a huge issue.

As for desserts, though we don't do much in the way of them, it's possible to make pretty impressive ones.

I grew up on sugar, on carbs, but there was no fast food, no factory concoctions, and we didn't do the constant eating that I see today.

That's is the food industries ploy. It's a science. They employ scientists to make food addictive and moreish.

I was a teacher, and students brought inordinate amounts of edibles to school, and much of that was rubbish.

One of my students used to mock the very idea of being healthy. She was as skinny as a rake,and ate rubbish, despite her mother being in the medical profession. But in year nine she went into hospital to have her wisdom teeth extracted, and went home one month later.

She contracted a virus, and was at death's door. I often wonder if it was the salutary lesson it should have been.

Here in Australia, we talk about sometimes food. The trouble with sometimes food is it's often a lot more than sometimes.

My cousin's grandchild went to school in the Channel Islands, and on the first day, despite the strict guidelines parents received about the kind of food they could bring, only one student's lunch box passed the test, her grandson's. It took a week before parents got the message.

And talking about that grandson, and his brother, they lived on a farm and everything was made at home. In later years at school, they were both sickened by the smell of flavored chips, something I can personally relate to.

Thanks for the link Elizabeth. I will check it out.