Britain | Britain’s badly fed kids

Are young children in Britain getting smaller?

Bad diets are the likeliest cause of problems

The shadows of a row of children on a gravel path. — Image: Getty Images

Jun 29th 2023

A REPORT this week from the Food Foundation, a think-tank, notes the social cost of soaring food inflation: the poorest fifth of households would now need to spend half of their disposable income to eat a healthy diet. Instead, too many eat cheap, high-calorie but low-nutrition meals. That takes a toll. Years of poor diets lead to more obesity and affect children’s heights.

This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “The children are shrinking”