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So are you saying food banks are causing obesity.
UK social security payments 'at lowest level since launch of welfare state'
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So are you saying food banks are causing obesity.
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So you are only interested in number one then why do you get upset over foreigners and Brexit?
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No, but obese people may need more food (or want) and as obesity affects poorer people more, they will seek out food where possible. It COULD be the other way round that obesity is triggering the need for food banks.
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Upset?
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Plenty poor people are fat and eat crap fast food
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Relatively is a cover all term..are.you saying anyone with enough money to feed themselves eats sensibly and is normal weight?
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https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201719/cmselect/cmenvaud/1491/149105.htm
https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN03336/SN03336.pdf
There is your answer the people who are living in the most deprived areas are about 11 percentage points more likely to be obese than those living in the least deprived areas. The reason for this is that they tend to consume more inexpensive, high calorie low nutrition foods.
"Insufficient access to food can result in compromised health for a number of reasons. It can lead to the adoption of risk-averse food purchasing habits, where, in the face of having little to spend, households prioritise purchasing foods that will not go to waste and that are most filling. Often this means a reliance on cheap foods that are nutrient-poor but calorie-rich"
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Fried chicken, burgers, kebabs ? They spring up everywhere these days, how they can make any money is beyond me, slave labour/cheap nasty ingredients ? The opening of more & more of these places by schools is a problem, whether anything can be done about it, ie, location,opening hours is something that needs to be looked at, if it hasn't already. But then there will be cries of "unfair" "why can't we eat sh1t if we want?", damned if you do, damned if you don't.
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No matter what links are listed here, no doubt you will find fault.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_the_United_Kingdom
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I just provided the Gov latest report on Obesity in post above.
But it's a report, so who needs those?
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No fault with anything that confirms what Jonbey said, that obesity is a disease affecting relatively wealthy people, it's just that every write up I've read states the opposite, not read anything which says it affects wealthy. It was that way years ago, but not now.
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Until recently it seems (tesco and other supermarkets are now doing offers on fresh veg) when I went shopping that packets of donuts or biccies are cheaper than a packet of decent flavour tomatoes or apples. You could get a packet of frozen burgers cheaper than a lean piece of quality meat. Sliced loaves (lotsa sugar) so much cheaper than a good quality nutty fresh loaf... etc. You can eat cheap if cook from scratch for sure but people in the UK don't tend to do that as much as they used to. I don't know why. Lazy? Lack of education?
It's little wonder people on low incomes go for cheap and convenient, whereas when I was a kid, veggies were the cheapest of all but we ate in season because that's pretty much all there was. There was 6 of us and money very tight in our early days and packets of biccies or chocolate bars just weren't bought as they were considered a luxury, a treat and a takeaway or meal out was saved for birthdays.
It's little wonder people on low incomes go for cheap and convenient, whereas when I was a kid, veggies were the cheapest of all but we ate in season because that's pretty much all there was. There was 6 of us and money very tight in our early days and packets of biccies or chocolate bars just weren't bought as they were considered a luxury, a treat and a takeaway or meal out was saved for birthdays.
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That's wikipedia, I read these
https://www.nhs.uk/news/obesity/children-poorer-backgrounds-more-affected-rise-childhood-obesity/
https://www.diabetes.org.uk/about_us/news_landing_page/societys-poorest-most-likely-to-be-obese
https://apolitical.co/solution_arti...uks-poorest-kids-weigh-more-than-the-wealthy/
plenty more out there
Are you a troll or do you believe the bulls hit you write.
If you had an iota of sympathy for people you would spent 2 minutes googling how those in poverty suffer in this country due to cruel benefits cuts.
But you dont, so you find it funny that some people dont have enough money to eat.
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