Improving children's diets will take more than ridding schools of unhealthy foods, Otago University researchers say.
In a study reported in the journal Public Health Nutrition, the researchers found that children's average daily cholesterol intake was actually higher when they were not at school, and kids were twice as likely to eat hot chips on their days off.
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