nd the types of food they would like to have, with the aim of improving access, availability and affordability. Elsewhere, residents are being encouraged to grow food on housing estates, and co-operatives have been set up to buy healthy food in bulk and distribute it to residents. The food is often actually cheaper than it would be from the supermarket. There are breakfast clubs in schools, a new emphasis on cooking for kids, and even tuck shops selling fruit to children, who often say they prefer fruit to sweets when they have cheap and easy access to it. This is no more than a taste of the various programmers that are underway to improve diet, especially of children, around the UK. Why so many of them? Because one of the greatest uncertainties in this area is that it is by no means clear