Austerity Britain is experiencing a nutritional recession, with
rising food prices and shrinking incomes driving up consumption of fatty
foods, reducing the amount of fruit and vegetables we buy, and
condeming people on the lowest incomes to an increasingly unhealthy
diet.
Detailed data compiled for the Guardian, which analysed the
grocery buying habits of thousands of UK citizens, shows that
consumption of fat, sugar and saturates has soared since 2010,
particularly among the poorest households, despite the overall volume of
food bought remaining almost static. Food experts and campaigners
called for government action to address concerns the UK faces a
sustained nutritional crisis triggered by food poverty, which is in turn storing up public health problems that threaten to widen inequalities between rich and poor households.
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