Daily Mirror

Jamie wants to halve child obesity in UK

- BY MARK JEFFERIES Showbiz Editor

TV CHEF Jamie Oliver hopes to halve child obesity in Britain in the next 10 years with a big health campaign and TV show.

In the past two decades Jamie, 42, has fronted a variety of food shows and documentar­ies including Jamie’s School Dinners in 2005, calling for more nutritious school meals.

He told the Mirror: “I want to halve child obesity.

“It’s about documentar­ies and explaining the concept and how easy it is for a child to get ill.”

A source close to the TV chef said the campaign is in the “planning process”.

Jamie’s Quick and Easy Food airs on Channel 4 on Monday nights at 8pm. 5 Ingredient­s Quick & Easy Food by Jamie Oliver is published by Penguin Random House.

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