Food an important factor in children's ability to learn so government should do right thing and reinstate old rules. The Government's $1.9 million a year contribution to feeding breakfasts to kids in low-decile schools may be modest. But at least it's a start. It's also amounts to a long-overdue admission by the government that what kids eat - or don't eat - has a huge impact on their behaviour in school and their ability to learn. For the past four years the government has been maintaining that what kids eat in school is none of its business.

This deadly poison is promoted as if it's a routine, safe, procedure but little is known of the long-term effects. I've always wondered why women would inject poison into their faces in an attempt to look younger. It's surprised me, too, that health officials would approve a procedure that involves injecting poison into people's faces three or four times a year.

One of the National Party's favourite taunts against the former Labour Government was that it was a "Nanny State" government. National MPs seldom missed an opportunity to paint Helen Clark as a "health Nazi" or ridicule Labour's healthy eating policies as examples of "Helen Clark getting into your pantry".