The Advisory Panel on Food and Nutrition in the Early Years was originally due to report last September, so it is heartening to see that it did not disappear into a post-election black hole and has now published its findings in Laying the Table (see News, page 4).
The panel's proposals for a national set of guidelines on providing food for pre-school children and for training in food and nutrition to be more widely available are unlikely to meet with resistance.
Meeting young children's nutritional requirements and getting portion sizes right is not an easy business, especially with the current gaps in information and lack of knowledge about where to turn for advice. Some settings are well-meaning, but dish up too much fruit and veg at the expense of carbohydrate, in an attempt to be 'healthy', for example.
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