Professor Grant Schofield has just been appointed chief education health and nutrition advisor for the Ministry of Education. Sending boxes of chocolate home for students to sell as a school fundraiser is one of the first issues the Government's controversial new health adviser would like to tackle. Public health professor Grant Schofield, also dubbed the "Fat Professor", has been appointed the Ministry of Education's first chief education health and nutrition adviser. Prof Schofield said the fact some schools sent children home with 60 chocolate bars for their families to sell showed there remained a "systemic failure" in attitudes towards food. What children did need was to be able to take more risks while playing and he hoped to encourage parents to allow that.

Source: Otago Daily Times April 22, 2017 22:07 UTC