UK children shorter, fatter and sicker amid poor diet and poverty, report finds
https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jun/19/uk-children-shorter-fatter-and-sicker-amid-poor-diet-and-poverty-report-finds
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UK children shorter, fatter and sicker amid poor diet and poverty, report finds
https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jun/19/uk-children-shorter-fatter-and-sicker-amid-poor-diet-and-poverty-report-finds
Posted by Codydoc4
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New daft punk track is pretty depressing.
Shorter
Fatter
Sicker
Poorer
“UK children shorter, fatter“
Well at least volume stays the same
>“We need the next government to take decisive action to make healthy and sustainable food affordable, stem the constant flow of junk food and to realise that investing in children’s health is an investment in the future of the country.”
I’m 100% for making food cheaper, but it really isn’t that expensive to make healthy food. [All this cost me is maybe £1.50, if that.](https://imgur.com/a/u1IjSye)
This is because junk processed food is much cheaper than proper food and poverty is rife.
This is purely a cultural issue combined with laziness and many not knowing how to cook. ‘Junk food is cheap’ my ass. Rice, pasta, beans and legumes, veg/fruits, oats etc…are all cheap to buy and easy to cook. These things make up bulk of diet in many healthier cuisines. Going out to eat or grabbing meal deals is fucking expensive, I don’t know how people keep saying this is a cheap way to eat. And it doesn’t keep you full at all, I can eat a mcdonalds large meal or meal deal from supermarket and be starving an hour later.
Easy fix as the government can ban adverts for anything unhealthy or actually ban anything they want.. but they won’t so…
On the flip side, child abduction is at a record low.
The problem here isn’t just food.
Its exercise.
As a sports coach in many schools P.E is an absolute after thought due to pressure of chasing metrics for maths and english.
Half the P.E I observe have 80% of the class standing or sitting still.
Increase compulsory physical education in schools to 4 hours per week.
Increase sports clubs on offer that are affordable.
Must’ve been all them jacket potatoes and beans videos I’ve seen on tiktok. As well as the fact the cheapest thing you can get nowadays is a cheese toastie which increasingly is transforming into legit a piece of bread and a single slice of cheese. And coincidentally the price is pretty ridiculous nowadays.
Eddie abbew is going to have a field day with this
Do they account for ethnicity? Since different ethnic groups reach different heights and weights at different ages.
Judging the average weight of a dog wouldn’t be very useful data given how vastly different the breeds are and their varying popularity.
I blame the parents personally 🤷 it’s still general to buy and cook healthy than not.
Obviously poverty is a factor but we can’t rule out that the quality of products found in your average UK supermarket is not good, fruits and vegs are not tasty. There is also no (or very little) producers markets to buy good and fresh products.
And the non-fresh products are also very average compared to other countries like France or Italy. At that point, you are left with buying something cheap (and not healthy) rather than something healthier but more expensive and not tasty.
I hate that the Tories got such a woeful reception to saying people can’t cook anymore. And that it took the Tories to say it.
For example, my neighbours don’t know what a chickpea is. They don’t know what that staple legume is.
The generational under education due to bad parenting, bad time management, and bad priorities has led to this situation and there isn’t a quick fix
Grab a fresh cooked full chicken for £5, 2 bags of mixed vegan for £1.50 and a bag of potato wedges for £1.50.
Total £8, that then does my dinners for two days.
I think less and less people want to cook or spend the time cooking. Instead they go for the quick, easy and tasty fast food not realizing how expensive it is by comparison.
Former health secretary Jeremy Hunt is upset that people don’t recognise the superb record if Tory governance.
Fast food is the factor people mention, but education is the real issue because people’s cooking skills are terrible and they don’t know how to make cheap and diverse healthy meals.
Shopping with the intent for the above is cheaper than fast foods which are making people fat. Alongside lack of education about the need for exercise I’m sure.
lol, you make healthy food prices go 100+% up in last few years and unhealthy food less than that. So you encourage unhealthy eating by then raising interest rate and taking all the bills up for internet/phone / mortgage & Rent / water and fuel. The list goes on and on
A poor leader and poor MP’s who don’t want to negotiate properly with other country’s but take bribes and hike prices for the rich and corporations. All the record profits over the past years, ignored by leaders should be investigated.
What did they expect was going to happen.
Try national service in this country. You have gone and messed up your own country.
Meanwhile China and Russia people not eating crap like we do. Long term tactics.
Now flooding all with illegal immigrant’s so that they can out-breed the people who originated in that country.
Your home won’t be your home for too long.