explains in a clear and entertaining way how to persuade children to shun fast foods in favour of a healthy diet. It is absolutely brilliant! In our view, the Government should give a complimentary copy to every new parent and every school caterer.

Dump the Junk explains over 300 strategies tackling the full gamut of children and fast foods issues - being in charge of your family’s diet, creating happy meal times, avoiding fast foods, the effects of fast foods, getting your child to eat fruit and vegetables, staying sane whilst shopping with your children, neutralising the effects of TV advertising, deflecting the influence on your child of other children addicted to junk food, etc.

There are also hundreds of telling, and often hilarious, anecdotes from parents. Our favourite is how one mum turned her children off chicken nuggets: “I told the kids”, she said, “they’re made from chicken’s bottoms and faces. They never asked for them again”.

Ed.- In fact, chicken nuggets are usually made with skin and pulped waste meat.