Two pints of cooking oil and a packet of crisps please

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It's just not what I wanted to see after a busy day at the office. Just got home - traffic was shocking with the onslaught of Scotch mist (torrential rain) - attended to one or two ‘must do's' before sitting down to a relatively healthy, cooked-from-scratch dinner (note - trying to practise what I preach).

Popped on the news, the usual stuff about life in 2006, and then it happened. An utterly horrible image appeared on the box - a young girl glugging away at a litre bottle of cooking oil. It almost made me choke on my corn on the cob! Apparently, kids today drink the equivalent of five litres of cooking oil a year as a result of their packet-a-day crisp habit. According to the British Heart Foundation (BHF), nearly a fifth of kids eat two packets of crisps a day and it is their campaign, aptly titled ‘Food4Thought’ that is trying to expose hidden salt, fat and sugar in common foods. Wha...

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