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Welcome to the Food Programme.

I'm Sheila Dylan.

In this episode, we ask, do the French really do it better? Helping their

children eat well and by doing that build a better, healthier nation. I hope you enjoy the argument.

We're in France, in Paris even, the capital of the country with the cuisine that the British have always admired the most.

The country that really knows how to eat, it knows how to appreciate good food, that knows

how to socialize around the table.

And we're here because a few days ago a new report came out in the UK

that had gathered enormous evidence to show that the diet of British toddlers, young children,

was one of the worst in the whole world, high in sugar and dominated by

commercial ready-made food.

So what's happening in France?

How is that cuisine holding up

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