Martha Payne, the 9-year old Scottish student that started the blog Never Seconds, which went viral in a matter of weeks, was forbidden to bring a camera into school, where she was photographing her school lunches for the blog before having the ban swiftly uplifted after word hit the Web.

Kids today. Don't underestimate the power of our internet tools when wielded by the hands of children. A nine-year old Scottish girl has created quite a buzz with her blog, NeverSeconds.

As the nation's second largest school district prepares for the start of the fall semester, student food critics have been hard at work sampling some healthier menu items soon to be found in cafeterias across Los Angeles.

With a number of regulatory efforts underway to guarantee that school lunches are becoming more nutritious, one obvious issue had been overlooked until now: the brown bag.

In what would seem to be some sort of early April Fool's joke, the UK Department of Health has actually invited companies including McDonald's, KFC, PepsiCo, Kellogg's, and Mars, to write health policies designed to address obesity, alcohol abuse, and diet-related diseases in Britain. The health risks often associated with consuming foods and beverages distributed by these very companies, er, policy contributors, have spiraled the country's obesity rate to nearly two-thirds of the population.

Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution marches on! Better School Food announced that Washington, DC public schools will stop serving flavored milks this fall. Here's why: chocolate and strawberry milk, usually sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup, has as much sugar, ounce for ounce, as regular Coke! In the fight against childhood obesity, it's an obvious target. Jamie applauded the DC school system for making the right decision in a recent video.

The question is: will other states have the guts to follow suit? Florida is considering banning flavored milk as well, but the dairy industry is worried that the kids will turn to "non-milk beverages," citing complaints from students that regular milk "has a weird flavor."

When did what kids want become more important than what they need? Kids in Berkeley, California have a choice between water and milk. If we compromised our curriculums the way we're compromising our menus, I'm sure kids would be playing video games all day long.

If you can't wait for the school system to improve, here are some brain-boosting foods for your child's health.

Convincing an entire town to change its eating habits may be a herculean feat, but British chef Jamie Oliver never wanted to be perceived as a nutritional superhero.

“I’m not trying to pretend I’m bloody Superman or something like that because it’s just not the case,” says Oliver, whose Food Revolution finale airs tonight (9 p.m. ET/PT on ABC). “But I have a very strange job. I have this wonderful opportunity—a lifetime opportunity to help a country that I care about.” 

As a father of three, Oliver has an emotional connection to the show. 

“Kids are so open-minded, and they’re so up for the challenge of trying things,” he says. “Often, it’s the parents that ruin the kids’ opportunities. Everyone always blames the kids, but it’s really not the kids; it’s the adults.” 

Food manufacturers, school districts and parents are in positions of power, Oliver says, and they’ve made “lots of bad decisions” over the last three generations. In both the United States and Britain, obesity rates have produced “the first generation of kids expected not to outlive their parents,” he notes. 

“It’s that kind of stuff that gets me upset and always will,” he says. 

The most important step in correcting poor dietary habits is learning how to cook, Oliver maintains. 

“If you know how to cook four, five or 10 simple dishes that are affordable and nutritious, then you’ve got choices,” he says. “And if you can’t cook, you haven’t got choices.”

Tonight on “Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution” 

Oliver’s efforts have borne fruit, but now what? 

 In the final episode, everything he has accomplished unravels when he leaves Huntington, WV. School food personnel are planning to reintroduce processed food to use up the mountain of surplus foods previously ordered. Children’s parents are also pulling them out of Oliver’s lunch program, and most of the school cooks remain untrained and unwilling to learn. 

With the media hounding him at every step and a city that’s revolting against his message, Oliver returns to pull off his most powerful demonstration yet. Is he too late? 

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When the community of Huntington, WV, watched the season premiere of Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution, they had mixed feelings about how the British chef would interact with their friends and neighbors. 

As resident Amy Gannon, a registered dietitian, told the town’s Herald-Dispatch newspaper: “Basically, Jamie Oliver has picked up on the obesity epidemic. I’m sure that he has good intentions for Huntington, but I know this is a reality show. He will show people that are resistant to change. I believe the idea is for Jamie to ride in on his white horse and save us all from ourselves.” 

For Oliver, Huntington is representative of many U.S. and British towns, where radical shifts have occurred in the food industry. 

“[We’ve] gone from an army of mom-and-pop restaurants and real signature dishes of [these areas] to largely only fast-food chains,” he says. And West Virginia, he notes, “has more small farms than any other state in America,” yet produce seems limited. 

Oliver, who has focused primarily on school nutrition, remains passionate about revamping cafeteria menus. 

“You put those beautiful little kids in school 180 days of the year, from [ages] 4 to 18, and nearly every choice is still a version of junk food,” he says. 

Ultimately, it will be up to Huntington’s leaders to decide whether they want to implement Oliver’s changes. 

“You’ll see, as the show unravels, it’s not a show that ends with a happy ending, but more of a passing over of the baton,” he says. 

“It’s for them to make it,” he adds. “It was always about finding local ambassadors of change and really embedding high hopes for everyone.”

Tonight on “Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution” (9 p.m. ET/PT, ABC) 

In Episode 5 of 6, Oliver places the burden of change squarely on the shoulders of Huntington High School students by asking them to choose between a lunch menu of processed junk food or fresh fare—and he’s shocked by their response. 

His faith is shaken when he is forced to rely on the testimony of his biggest adversary, elementary school head cook Alice Gue, to help convince local hospital administrators to fund training for school cooks and provide sustainable resources to roll out the food revolution in Huntington. 

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When asked about the recently proposed federal guidelines for foods sold at U.S. schools, British celebrity chef and Food Revolution host Jamie Oliver says they’re “definitely a step in the right direction.” 

He is, however, concerned about how schools will fiscally implement any final rules. 

“It’s great that we’ve got new standards being put forward,” he says. “However, if the right amount of funds aren’t delivered in conjunction with the standards, then [schools] won’t be able to implement the standards.” 

Oliver believes revamping school food programs will succeed or fail based on “the training and empowerment and love given to school cooks.” Proper training, he says, will increase their motivation to help combat America’s childhood obesity epidemic. 

School cooks will “understand it, they’ll be inspired, they’ll feel important,” he says. 

“We’re not even anywhere near what needs to be put forward,” Oliver adds. “[Obesity] is killing children—your children. It’s changing the face of health and the health of Americans. And I think that we need to put into context the amount of money that needs to fix 30 and 40 years of, really, lack of investment—let’s be frank. 

“I know money is everything,” he continues, “but let’s remember how much is being spent on war every month, to put it in perspective.” 

Tonight on “Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution” (9 p.m. ET/PT, ABC) 

In Episode 4 of 6, Oliver realizes the importance of moving his food revolution beyond the schools to involve the entire community of Huntington, West Virginia. He organizes a 1,000-person educational cook-a-thon, with participants ranging from steelworkers and firemen to parents and government officials. 

Photo: Holly Farrell/ABC