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Voices: I was brought up in a ‘clear-your-plate’ household… and it never did me any good

COMMENT: Demanding that children finish off their meal before being allowed to leave the dining table can store up a lifetime of eating disorders, according to a new report. Sanchez Manning is still haunted by memories of childhood mealtimes – precisely why she’ll never make her son eat up the…

The Independent UK

Forcing children to finish meals could be fuelling obesity crisis

Children need portion sizes that reflect their body size

The Independent UK

Large portions and forcing children to finish meals ‘could be fuelling obesity’

Almost a third of parents say they need more guidance on deciding the appropriate portion sizes for their children.

Evening Standard

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How to get your kids to eat more vegetables – and how to do it cheaply

The British Nutrition Foundation and a personal finance expert tell Lisa Salmon where to buy the cheapest vegetables, and how to get kids to eat it.

The Independent UK

France's first social network Skyblog shuts down after 20 years

One of France’s earliest social networks, Skyblog, is closing down for good this week. Launched in 2002, the blogging site gave millions of French internet users their first taste of interacting online before it fell out of fashion with the arrival of bigger competitors from the US.

Radio France Internationale

Codebreakers Find, Decipher Lost Letters of Mary, Queen of Scots

An international team of codebreakers said Wednesday they have found and deciphered the long lost secret letters of 16th-century monarch Mary, Queen of Scots, one of the most argued-over figures in British history. The long-rumored missing letters, which were found mislabeled in the digital archive of a French library, were…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Codebreakers crack secrets of Mary Queen of Scots’ lost letters

The letters date from 1578 to 1584, a few years before Mary’s beheading 436 years ago.

The Independent UK

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Ales Bialiatski, a life of peaceful struggle for human rights in Belarus

A co-laureate of the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize, the human rights activist Ales Bialiatski is the fourth person in the history of the Nobel to receive this award while in prison. With this symbolic yet powerful gesture, the Nobel committee recognised Bialiatski’s 35 years of work upholding human rights in…

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