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6,520 admitted to hospital with malnutrition. Food Poverty Blamed.
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Do people think this is genuinely down to inability to afford a balanced diet rather than people simply having a poor diet or other medical conditions causing malnutrition.
If it is down to poverty, does it prove increase use of food banks is not just because they are available, but because they are genuienly needed, and infact we need more.
Or if it is down to not just poverty but also poor decisions should other things be done, state food parcels for the poor instead of some of the money they currently receive. To ensure they receive food equating to a healthy balanced diet, rather than money they might spend on other things.
Vice president of the Faculty of Public Health, John Middleton, said food-related ill health was getting worse "through extreme poverty and the use of food banks".
"It's getting worse because people can't afford good quality food. It's getting worse where malnutrition, rickets and other manifestations of extreme poor diet are becoming apparent," he said.
Do people think this is genuinely down to inability to afford a balanced diet rather than people simply having a poor diet or other medical conditions causing malnutrition.
If it is down to poverty, does it prove increase use of food banks is not just because they are available, but because they are genuienly needed, and infact we need more.
Or if it is down to not just poverty but also poor decisions should other things be done, state food parcels for the poor instead of some of the money they currently receive. To ensure they receive food equating to a healthy balanced diet, rather than money they might spend on other things.
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No doubt that there is a significant rise in food related problems under this government.
The only reasonable deduction is that this government are the cause.
I imagine some people will try and "blame the victim", a popular pastime for Conservatives and their supporters...
Many of those who have decided to live off the efforts of the rest of us will tell you they have more than enough money. Many families living on benefits get more than those who are working so benefits are clearly to generous.
Yet the number of working people needing to claim in work benefits has risen greatly and is increasing all the time, more working people than ever before needing to claim help with thier rent from housing benefit, 1 in 4 households in london needing to claim housing benefit, so this is not all about unemployed people
It looks like most are households where no one is working.
http://www.londoncouncils.gov.uk/policylobbying/welfarereforms/resources/TrackingWelfareReforminLondonaLondonCouncilsupdate.htm
Number of households in London in receipt of housing benefit 850,212
Number of those in social rented receiving Housing Benefit, where someone in the household is in work part-time or full-time report fails to mention.
Number of those in private rented receiving LHA, where someone in the household is in work part-time or full-time 111,481
I don't know why organic foods can't be cheaper than the bog standard stuff.
2) You do realise that the definition of malnutrition includes overeating. :rolleyes:
3) It also includes lack of certain vitamins or minerals, which can be due to a poor choice of diet and no other reason.
Most of the people I work with aren't British...Greek, Malaysian, Spanish...and they're are amazed at what the British people bring in for lunch while they're all eating salads, rice etc.
Still, much easier to blame the government for all your woes I guess. The last generation grew up used to being spoon fed by new Labour.
BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-28883892
Official data paints a far far worse picture.
http://www.hscic.gov.uk/article/4859/New-analysis-shows-current-picture-of-diseases-which-were-widespread-in-the-Victorian-era Unless the election of the coalition government some how coincided with a massive 71% increase in people coincidentally choosing to eat a poor diet, I think things like welfare reform and cost of living crisis might have something to do with it.
Spot price of gold
https://www.blanchardgold.com/investment-news/spot-prices/gold/
August 2011 $1,899.00
August 2012 $1,692.00
August 2013 $1,419.00
August 2014 $1,281.50
Aren't all foods "full of chemicals" and isn't all commercial fruit and vegetable produce "sprayed with pesticides"?
"Organic" food is more expensive and there is no nutritional benefit. They are also full of chemicals and sprayed with pesticides.
Or how not to.
Organic is not always better. I was reading yesterday that organic milk has 42% less iodine than non-organic.
ETA: http://www.surrey.ac.uk/mediacentre/press/2011/59734_low_iodine_levels_in_organic_milk_could_compromise_brain_development_in_early_life.htm
You only have to read the ingredients of ready made meals to see the junk they put in them - additives, preservatives, synthetic flavouring and usually too much sugar and salt.
You omit most of those if you cook your own meals. Delicious! ;-)
Organic fruit and veg is far more flavoursome and should be made affordable for everyone.
I try and buy English fruit and veg whenever I can, because the fruits travelling from abroad are heavily sprayed with pesticide.
The "correct" foods for you to eat will differ depending on what your goals are won't they. The government advise us to get about 50 grams of protein a day which is fine for a sedentary office worker but a 200 pound bodybuilder on benefits will want around 200 grams a day. And I think a weekly unhealthy meal where you get to eat complete crap if you want is better for you in the long run because it encourages you to stick to healthier eating if you know you still get to have a treat each week. You could factor that into your card idea with people having an allowance of unhealthy stuff but really I think that that would put us too much into "big brother" territory.
I didn't know that. In my case that's good news because I'm not meant to have too much iodine.
Someone once told me, that if people choose to eat organic produce then to make sure it's dairy. ( butter, cheese, milk, yogurt and meat) I can't remember why.
In blinded studies "organic" food tastes no better or worse than non-organic food.
The English fruit and veg you buy will also be sprayed with pesticide.
You can be obese and still malnourished if your diet doesn't contain all the essential vitamins and minerals. This argument is a red herring. It is even claimed by some scientists that malnutrition causes obesity.
http://drhyman.com/blog/2012/02/29/how-malnutrition-causes-obesity/#close