A huge portion of chips in a restaurant Mac Donald in the United States represents 610 calories and a Coca extract cola contains 410. As comparison, let us underline that the glass of milk distributed every morning to the children of sometimes primary and maternal schools since 1954 does not exceed a contribution of 100 calories and the fruit which accompanies it generally exceed no more than 100 calories also.

In the United States, 40 % populations suffer from a serious problem of overweight today. The French children also begin being touched by this phenomenon. However, situations differ according to districts and socioeconomic environment of the child. According to l Amalth e association, which is at origin, with Pierre Mend s France, of the distribution of a light morning light meal to the children of nursery schools for fifty years, some of them, and notably those living in the disadvantaged districts, do not always benefit from a solid breakfast and there are still cases of calcique deficiency.

In the United States, consumers' associations campaign for several years to get chains of quick restoration that they get involved in the struggle against obesity. That's how since 2002, the giant Mac Donald agreed to vary his menus and to offer salads, yoghurts and fruits, dishes intended to promote a different food ethics. Yesterday, the business company confirmed its efforts by announcing that before end of year, 13 600 restaurants which count the United States will offer no more menus of huge size. After the announcement of the group, Michael Jacobson, manager of the Centre for Science in interest of the public did not hide his satisfaction: I hope that it is a sign that the group is more going to pay one close attention to obesity, to cardiac problems and to other diseases linked to feeding he declared before wishing that the rivals of Mac Donald follow him in this happy initiative.

If in France the representatives of the consumers and of the parents of pupil begin taking more and more seriously the problem of obesity, never they had pinned in their struggle sober light meal distributed to the youngest before the recess of morning. It did not prevent the French Agency of health security of food (AFSSA) from publishing an unfavourable recommendation in pursuit of this tradition yesterday, from now on old of half a century, and instituted it's true in an epoch when the socioeconomic landscape of France deeply differed from that today's.

The sages of the AFSSA considered that this snack at once was not "justified" and could encourage nibbling. It is severely that AFSSA besides maintained that: this additional food catch is at the origin of a caloric excess which can only favour l increase of the prevalency of the obesity determined for 30 years at the children of school age in France .

The Unit national Labour union of the teachers, professors of schools and Pegc did not hide its astonishment yesterday and reminded that the instant of distribution allowed, on the contrary, to broadcast an educational message. As for proposal of l AFSSA, who recommends to give a balanced breakfast only to the only children who would not have taken it, and it from arrival to the school , the Amalth e association underlined its difficulty of realisation: To organise breakfasts for the only children in trouble, it returns to stigmatise them definitely indeed pointed his representatives out.