The coalition government, clearly big proponents of IIFYM. Poverty is forcing people to have dangerously poor diets and is leading to the return of rickets and gout – diseases of the Victorian age that affect bones and joints – according the UK Faculty of Public Health. The public health professionals body will call for a national food policy, including a sugar tax, as concerns rise over malnutrition and vitamin deficiencies in British children. It will also appeal for all political parties to back a living wage to help combat the illnesses. Doctors and hospitals are seeing a rise in children suffering from ailments caused by poor diet and the faculty has linked the trend to peoples inability to afford quality food. Latest figures show there has been a 19% increase in people hospitalised in England and Wales for malnutrition over the past 12 months but experts say this is only the extreme end. Dr John Middleton, from the FPH, said the calls would come in the facultys manifesto to be published next month and warned that ill-health arising from poor diets was worsening throughout Britain through extreme poverty and the use of food banks. He said that obesity remained the biggest problem of food poverty as families are forced into choosing cheap, processed high fat foods just to survive. Its getting worse because people cant afford good quality food, he said. Malnutrition, rickets and other manifestations of extreme poor diet are becoming apparent. GPs are reporting rickets anecdotally in Manchester, the East End of London, Birmingham and the West Midlands. It is a condition we believed should have died out.
Posted on: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 14:58:46 +0000
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