From January 2017, selling and/or advertising chips, soft drinks or mayonnaise-filled sandwiches to children in schools will be illegal. The new legislation is the result of an ongoing debate on the growing number of obese children in the Czech Republic. According to the latest statistics, every third child in the country is obese. The Czech Republic has therefore finally decided to follow global and European trends in implementing specific regulations aimed at combating questionable eating habits among children and adolescents.