Originally Posted by
the other bob wilson
It's great, I could have posted links from many publications that mentioned the study, but chose the Daily Mail because I thought it best to use something which is a polar opposite from my opinions in so many ways - I wish I hadn't bothered. The Mail didn't do anything wrong in this case except that they happened to mention the Netherlands in their story and so the opportunity was given to divert the story to a discussion about why are Dutch people so tall, whereas, you'd think that in the UK, it would be why are British five years old so small and why are do they seem to be getting smaller? Similarly, you choose to pick out one thing from the video I posted to attack the professor who was being interviewed, rather than address the comeback of diseases which were considered to be relics from a bygone age twenty years ago.
If a nation's children are getting smaller by comparison to other countries and are less tall now than they were in the recent past, while diseases associated with poor diet which have been dormant for decades make a comeback, isn't it reasonable to assume that it may have something to do with a decline in the quality of the food we eat? There's a political argument to be had as to whether this is because the poorest cannot afford to buy food of sufficient quality or whether many act out of choice and are preferring lower quality, convenience foods, but it seems pretty clear that the UK is paying a price for poor diet - not just in terms of the "usual suspects" like heart disease and diabetes, but also in ways no one would have predicted before the turn of the century.
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