Poor Jamie Oliver. He spent months battling Miss Trunchbull-like dinner ladies trying to get them to serve rocket salad rather than chips. But according to Cornell University researchers Brian Wansink and David R Just, who did a series of experiments in US schools, all he had to do was to shift the goalposts. And the salad bar. By using supermarket-style behavioural psychology tricks such as moving the salad bar away from the wall and renaming corn as, er, "creamy corn", sales of some healthy foods tripled in canteens. Child obesity solved. Next!
A healthier school dinner? Step this way
Researchers at Cornell University may have found the answer to child obesity - redesigning the canteen