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Here in the UK, an estimated four million people cannot afford to eat a healthy diet and therefore have a significantly increased risk of developing conditions such as heart disease and cancer.
Buying healthy foods can cost up to 50% more than low-cost, nutritionally poor alternatives. The lack of shops selling healthy food in poor areas, and the loss of cooking skills, also contribute to the problem. Buying a balanced diet in a socially acceptable way has become a ‘privilege’ from which millions are excluded.
- Up to 5,000 people in each Parliamentary constituency may be malnourished.
- An estimated 40% of people admitted to hospital are malnourished.
This cannot continue; urgent action is needed. Food Justice is a coalition campaign to get a legal duty on government to ensure an end to food poverty within 15 years: The Food Poverty (Eradication) Bill. 198 MPs have signed the Early Day Motion so far, including Stroud's David Drew - no other Gloucestershire MPs have signed yet. Read more:
http://www.joeshort.net/foodjustice/
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