CLERMONT — “Sports candy” is yummy — and nutritious. The uninitiated might ask “what the heck is that?” But ask the younger set and you’ll get a quick answer. “Fruits and vegetables,” said a youngster ...

TELEVISION is by nature a kingdom of the known; it plays upon our desire to return to a familiar place, for familiar fun, week after week, or even day after day, same time, same channel. Yet there is ...

Not sure if you happened to be watching the Nick Jr channel at 9.30 the other morning, but if you were, you would have seen something extraordinary: the sight of a grown man of dynamic, ...

LazyTown Magnus Scheving, better known as Sportacus, slyly teaches kids that veggies are good and fit is cool HIP HERO If your kids are suddenly getting active and eating their veggies, you may have a ...

Ministers believe they may have hit upon a new weapon in the battle against obesity: a children's television series showing healthy lifestyles can be fun. Andrew Lansley, the health secretary, ...

The show, which features fitness-mad character Sportacus, and promotes a healthy lifestyle in more than 100 countries, hangs in the balance over legal action being taken by bondholders to retrieve £15 ...

Ministers want to use the BBC children’s programme Lazytown to help tackle obesity. They hope the show – which sees the athletic superhero Sportacus persuade kids to stop playing video games and be ...

It can’t be easy to have a world-famous father. But spare a thought for Kristofer Scheving – his dad spends most of his time jumping around in skin-tight blue Lycra. And it doesn’t stop there for the ...

WHEN it comes to flexing some muscle in the war on childhood obesity, Magnus Scheving's efforts have been little short of heroic. Which is apt given that the creator of BBC2's Lazy- Town also plays ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Most people wouldn’t even recognise Magnús Scheving although he’s a very successful global entrepreneur and (possibly ...