WW2 – We’re rationing everything but kids get all the fresh fruit, milk and eggs we have because we need to ensure a strong, healthy population in the coming decades.
2010s/20s – Childhood Rickets are a necessary price to pay to reduce inflation.
An absolute fucking disgrace. Anyone who vote Tory should hang their heads in shame.
Wasn’t one of the PMs boasting points about how he was moving funding out of deprived urban areas?
Rickets has been on the increase for some time, this article is from 2011.
> Cases of the crippling children’s bone disease rickets are being seen in Cardiff, BBC Wales has learned.
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> Caused by a lack of vitamin D, the disease can lead to deformities like bowed legs and stunted growth, but it largely disappeared last century.
Rickets isn’t caused by diet. What I hadn’t realized until looking it up is that if a pregnant woman has a Vit D deficiency and isn’t getting Vit D, her child/ren will also have a deficiency and that leads to rickets. Maybe food banks should be asking people to donate multivitamins?
Although there are other reasons women get a deficiency, eg in some cultures covering up and not going out much, and I’m not sure how much that is because of poverty.
Kids left to their own devices sat on screens and not playing outside nor getting sunlight. Atrocious ready made meals lacking essential nutrients.
Vegetables are dirt cheap, fruit is dirt cheap, why aren’t parents feeding their kids properly? This seems like a result of sedentary lifestyles coupled with parents not preparing fruit & veg
Somehow we only have underfed children and overfed children in the UK, no healthily fed children
We need lots of safeguarding training to stop the signs of malnutrition. A school I know recently caught a child stealing food, it turned out he was desperately hungry and too scared to tell anyone. People are struggling and it’s all a political choice.
‘UK children have rickets and are starving, but government says it has loads of wonga to send to Isreal’ READ ALL ABOUT IT!
Considering the incalculable billions spent on military, nuclear weapons, vanity projects, dodgy NHS contracts etc I can’t understand why politicians consistently turn down offering free school meals for all.
Invest in better quality food in schools and push it to everyone.
Even if it costs 5-10 billion a year, that’s peanuts versus the cost of having a generation of kids malnourished and uneducated.
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WW2 – We’re rationing everything but kids get all the fresh fruit, milk and eggs we have because we need to ensure a strong, healthy population in the coming decades.
2010s/20s – Childhood Rickets are a necessary price to pay to reduce inflation.
An absolute fucking disgrace. Anyone who vote Tory should hang their heads in shame.
Wasn’t one of the PMs boasting points about how he was moving funding out of deprived urban areas?
Rickets has been on the increase for some time, this article is from 2011.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-14256950
> Cases of the crippling children’s bone disease rickets are being seen in Cardiff, BBC Wales has learned.
>
> Caused by a lack of vitamin D, the disease can lead to deformities like bowed legs and stunted growth, but it largely disappeared last century.
Rickets isn’t caused by diet. What I hadn’t realized until looking it up is that if a pregnant woman has a Vit D deficiency and isn’t getting Vit D, her child/ren will also have a deficiency and that leads to rickets. Maybe food banks should be asking people to donate multivitamins?
Although there are other reasons women get a deficiency, eg in some cultures covering up and not going out much, and I’m not sure how much that is because of poverty.
Kids left to their own devices sat on screens and not playing outside nor getting sunlight. Atrocious ready made meals lacking essential nutrients.
Vegetables are dirt cheap, fruit is dirt cheap, why aren’t parents feeding their kids properly? This seems like a result of sedentary lifestyles coupled with parents not preparing fruit & veg
Somehow we only have underfed children and overfed children in the UK, no healthily fed children
We need lots of safeguarding training to stop the signs of malnutrition. A school I know recently caught a child stealing food, it turned out he was desperately hungry and too scared to tell anyone. People are struggling and it’s all a political choice.
‘UK children have rickets and are starving, but government says it has loads of wonga to send to Isreal’ READ ALL ABOUT IT!
Considering the incalculable billions spent on military, nuclear weapons, vanity projects, dodgy NHS contracts etc I can’t understand why politicians consistently turn down offering free school meals for all.
Invest in better quality food in schools and push it to everyone.
Even if it costs 5-10 billion a year, that’s peanuts versus the cost of having a generation of kids malnourished and uneducated.