The food we eat - Our diet is our own responsibility

THE impact some industrialised food is having on our health — and our day-to-day economic survival as the chicken farmers of the south-east are learning — will be highlighted again in an Institute of Public Health report in November.

The report will tell us that more than 300,000 people on low incomes suffer from “modern malnutrition” because so much of what they — we — eat is junk.

Though so much of what is sold in supermarkets or at fast-food fat-fests looks like food, smells like food and seems to be food it does not contribute to a healthy lifestyle. In many instances it does the exact opposite.