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Kaye asks: do Scots need to eat more like the English to prevent 2000 deaths a year?

2000 Scottish lives could be saved every year if we were to eat more like the English, according to the BMJ. But do professionals need to back off with healthy eating mantras?

Do we need to eat like the English?

We've had many, many messages about healthy eating, and now we're even being told that we need to eat like the English. But does there come a time when the health professionals need to back off and let us eat what we want?

On the day that we've been told that eating like the English could save 4000 lives in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland we'll be asking if it's time for health professionals to back off with messages about healthy eating. Is there a point at which it needs to be accepted that we Scots just have a homing instinct for fatty food? Or is our health simply so bad that we need to keep battering healthy eating messages home?

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Can babies help to beat the bullies?

An anti-bullying scheme called "Roots of Empathy" is to be introduced into primary schools across Scotland after a successful pilot in North Lanarkshire. The scheme brings a parent and baby into P3 classrooms several times in the course of a year, with the idea that children learn all about empathy. 

Kaye asks...will taking babies into classrooms really make a difference to young children's levels of empathy, and change bullying behaviour? If not babies, then what really works to beat bullying? Is it up to schools to get to the bottom of bullying, or does it all begin and end at home?

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