More fast food outlets set up next to schools, despite obesity rise

More and more fast food outlets are opening up close to Dutch schools, despite government efforts to encourage healthy eating, according to research by current affairs tv programme Pointer. Over the past 10 years, the number of snack bars within a five minutes walk of a secondary school have gone up 40%, while the number of supermarkets has risen 26%, Pointer says. One in six teenagers in the Netherlands is considered to be too heavy, and their number has doubled...