The poorest fifth of households in Britain would now need to spend half of their disposable income to eat a healthy diet, according to a new report. That takes a toll. Years of poor diets lead to more obesity and affect children’s heights
in 2020 suggested British five-year-olds were already among the shortest in Europe . That study, based on analysis of data up to 2017-18, indicated that average height started falling in 2014. Confirming that is not easy. Different factors could be at play, such as changing immigration trends: on average African and Caribbean children are taller than white children, while South Asians are smaller. Country comparisons may also be tricky, if ways of measuring differ.
But deprivation clearly goes in hand with stunting. A comparison of 10- and 11-year-olds finds the average boy in the most deprived area of Britain is now 1.3cm shorter than one in the least deprived area. This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline"The children are shrinking"
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