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A letter is to be sent to all schools ordering them to ban unhealthy packed lunches.

It is one of a raft of proposals in the Government's new £372 million strategy for tackling the country's obesity epidemic.

The blueprint also includes plans for:

* Cash incentives for employers to ensure their staff are healthy.

* The identification of fat families and children who are at risk of becoming overweight and a campaign to get a third of Britons taking 1,000 more steps daily by 2012.

* Cash to encourage people to lose weight on prescription by signing up to slimming clubs.

* More control for parents to stop "couch potato" children playing computer games.

The message from ministers is we are eating too much, failing to exercise and parents are underestimating how much fatty food their children eat.

Health Secretary Alan Johnson said: 'The aim is to kick start a culture change. The problem has to be owned, recognised and addressed in every part of society."

Health campaigners said the measures lacked detail and would not force the food industry into action.