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Competition Entries
The following are all entries to our Early Day Motion competition. If you have just submitted a motion and it has not appeared, do not be alarmed; it will appear on the site within 24 hours, and has been received successfully.
Hospital meals
Anna Thomas
That this House believes that more appetising hospital meals would benefit patients physical and mental health.
| Currently rated: | 4.4 | Rate this article: |
Organic food subsidy
Emma Vallance
That organic food should be subsidised making it the same price, or cheaper than less healthy food alternatives, and so providing an affordable healthy eating option to shoppers.
| Currently rated: | 4.2 | Rate this article: |
ADHD and additives
Lynne Watkins
That this house recognises the research proving the link between food additives and children's behaviour, and encourages manufacturers to take this into account when producing children's food.
| Currently rated: | 4.3 | Rate this article: |
Fast Food awareness
Mrs Sarah Bastow
That this house welcomes a campaign to ensure that Fast Food establishments must have on visual display the calorific and fat content of all items for sale.
| Currently rated: | 4.6 | Rate this article: |
Ready Meals
Ian Hoy
That this house bans all such meals that take away the link between the preparation of basic ingredients and the consumption of wholesome food.
| Currently rated: | 4.0 | Rate this article: |
Nourishment for the Nation's future
Raymond Taylor
That this House recognises that food habits begin early and wishes to invest in the health, wellbeing and future wealth of the nation by providing nutritious, attractive, tasty free meals throughout the entire education of children from nursery to university, thereby reducing future mental and physical health costs to the nation and lengthening the productive and useful lives of each and every person
| Currently rated: | 3.5 | Rate this article: |
Promoting health instead of fighting sickness
Colin Jennings
That this house recognises the immediate need for the NHS to emphasise health promotion rather than sickness relief; with an understanding that local treatment centres and practices should be encouraged to grow, in a direction that combines nurse/doctor practices, sports facilities and centres of nutritional food and shopping, which will reduce the nation’s mentality that a tablet can cure all ailments and problems that could well be prevented from developing.
| Currently rated: | 4.0 | Rate this article: |
Cross subsidise nutritional gain
Spencer
That this House recognises that the relative costs for the consumer of nutrionally poor, proceessed foods versus nutritious fruits and vegetables undermines our health and vitality and agrees that the Government should intervene to ensure that this distortion does not impovrish the nation's health.
| Currently rated: | 3.2 | Rate this article: |
Cooking lessons in schools
Chris
That this House believes that a lack of knowledge of cooking skills contributes to poor diet; and therefore calls for the National Curriculum to be amended to ensure that all children in secondary schools have practical cookery lessons.
| Currently rated: | 4.2 | Rate this article: |