The study from the University of Sheffield highlighted the alarming levels of food poverty in the UK.
Food insecurity is the inability to consistently afford and access food needed to maintain good health and wellbeing.
The problem has been highlighted recently due to the rise in reporting on food bank usage in the UK. In November 2020 The Trussell Trust saw aDr Megan Blake from the University of Sheffield Institute for Sustainable Food, who collaborated on the work, said:"While no one should have to go hungry, struggle to get or worry about having enough food, in some places, it is at proportions that are especially shocking, particularly as we are a wealthy country.
For some people, living on the edge of food insecurity may mean an unexpected event such as a car or boiler breakdown or an unexpected illness, could be the tipping point that squeezes food budgets. This in turn can be linked to higher rates of illness and obesity due to people buying cheaper foods, which store longer and are more filling, over healthier choices.Anna Taylor, Executive Director, Food Foundation said:"COVID-19 has pushed households across the UK further into hardship and forced a newly vulnerable segment of society to seek help for the first time."
The data from Food Foundation is from an online survey of 4,231 adults in the UK conducted on 29 January - 2 February 2021 by YouGov.
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