Four million UK children too poor to have a healthy diet, study finds

Food Foundation finds poorest families cannot meet healthy food guidelines of government

Almost four million children in the UK live in households that would struggle to afford to buy enough fruit, vegetables, fish and other healthy foods to meet the official nutrition guidelines, a groundbreaking food poverty study reveals.

The research, by the Food Foundation thinktank, says the diminishing ability of low-income families to pay for healthy food is consigning the least well-off to a greater risk of diet related illness, such as obesity and diabetes, as well as widening health inequalities across society.

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/2NQsj1M