It's simply harder to eat well when you are poor | Barbara Ellen

Austerity, not ignorance or laziness, lies at the heart of eating problems in the young While it's good to see that number of obese and overweight children has (slightly) fallen for those starting school, one in 10 children is still entering reception obese or overweight, rising to one in five at the start of secondary school. More startlingly, the figures from the Health & Social Care Information Centre show that 25% of children in poorer areas are obese, compared to about 11% in more affluent ...