A British teenager who has existed on a diet of jam sandwiches for more than a decade has been given a clean bill of health.

"Heck yeah, just jam sandwiches, mate!" says Craig Flatman.

Although Craig Flatman, 15, has eating habits that would make a nutritionist shudder, a dietician concluded last week that the 6ft 1in, youngster was getting "adequate protein and some vitamins and minerals".

But the dietician did tell his parents that the teenager should see a behavioral psychologist in an attempt to alter his eating habits.

Craig would not eat solids as a baby until he ate a sugar sandwich. Aged four he started eating only sandwiches made from white, sliced bread, margarine and strawberry, raspberry or blackcurrant jam. He drinks two pints of semi-skimmed milk a day but the only other food he touches is chocolate cereal for breakfast and a daily slice of chocolate cake.

"I never get bored of jam because I like the taste so much," said Craig, of Stowmarket, Suffolk, yesterday. "The doctors told me I would grow out of it, but I don't know if I will ever change.

"My mum and dad have tried everything to get me eating other things but nothing seems to work."