It is time the government treated hunger and obesity as two interlinked problems | Letter
Whitehall treats them as two problems, with two sets of ministers and no shared accountability, and so neither is solved.
Key points
- The Health and Social Care Committee wants prevention and treatment run as separate workstreams, and stops at urging ministers to stand up to the food industry.
The same food system, and the same households, produce both hunger and obesity.
The commission sees hunger as a question of income and rights, but says little about the quality of the diet that low incomes buy.
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