Candy dispensers were banned from schools and colleges in 2004 to combat obesity and overweight. But they are still present in children's hospital departments twenty years later.
“It’s the height of it all, an anomaly, a paradox… In short, there's something wrong!” says the head of the pediatrics department at Necker (AP-HP) “Prevention remains the poor relation of health policy’ says epidemiologist Antoine Flahault, who has just published a novel on this subject.