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The UK is in danger of standards of nutrition regressing decades and undoing the advances made since World War Two, a coalition of 170 public health experts has warned.
Food poverty in the world's sixth largest economy should be unacceptable, and the government is doing little to solve it, the academics and practitioners from the UK Faculty of Public Health said in a letter to the Lancet, a prestigious medical health journal.
"We view the rise of food poverty as an indication of the reversal of what was a long process of improvement in food availability and affordability since World War 2," the letter said.
"Public debate about food poverty is sometimes too quick to blame the poor without understanding the pressures poorer families are under."
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/05/01/food-poverty_0_n_5245053.html
Food poverty in the world's sixth largest economy should be unacceptable, and the government is doing little to solve it, the academics and practitioners from the UK Faculty of Public Health said in a letter to the Lancet, a prestigious medical health journal.
"We view the rise of food poverty as an indication of the reversal of what was a long process of improvement in food availability and affordability since World War 2," the letter said.
"Public debate about food poverty is sometimes too quick to blame the poor without understanding the pressures poorer families are under."
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/05/01/food-poverty_0_n_5245053.html