UK kids are shorter and fatter than EU counterparts

Addiction Economy Thought for Today - Evidence of harms clearly communicated is one of the most important ways that policy change can happen to prevent the damage of addiction economy industries. Here another powerful report from The Food Foundation.

"The report comes after the Guardian revealed ministers were told they were putting children at lifelong risk of ill health after shelving policies to tackle obesity and junk food until 2025".

The dramatic fall in the health of our children has come during the Conservative government. The 'business-friendly' government. Why did they do that? Was it industry lobbying? Fear of being branded a 'nanny state'? Interested in your views.

So here's the basic reason why our children are shorter and fatter and will die younger than we will:

"Aggressive marketing of cheap ultra-processed food, diets lacking essential nutrition and high levels of poverty and deprivation are driving the “significant decline” in children’s health, researchers found.

Failure to reverse the alarming trajectory will result in a generation burdened throughout their lives by diet-related illnesses and the mental health impact of living with disease – followed by an early death, the report concluded".

Labour cannot let this ESSENTIAL policy area get derailed by corporate influence and gutlessness like this government.