20% of school kids malnourished...

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just been on radio2 (jeremy vine) that 1 in 5 school kids arent being fed enough.

clearly for a 'developed' country this is inexcusable.

what should be done?

cancel oversees aid? etc.

your thoughts.

(i know there will lots of 'let the scroungers die' from the right wing nutters we have but a lot of people are struggling at the moment)
 
I would have thought that most of that figure is children not getting the right food and are lacking vital vitemins, not starvin marvin. How many children are dangerously over weight?
 
They should be allowed to nick food off the 1 in 5 that are overweight or obese.

Serious point though, as the poster above says, is a lot of this (over/under weight) down to bad diet versus over/under feeding?
 
I'm not really sure how this is happening. These families obviously receive benefits money enough to buy food etc. so I can only imagine it's down to bad parenting or them spending the money on things they shouldn't be. If that's the case, I don't really know what can be done, other than perhaps putting the children into care.

I think as a nation we give too much aid to other countries instead of sorting our own problems out. A lot of the countries that we give to also just spend large amounts of money on weapons/military instead of helping their own people. I don't see why we should be giving those countries any aid at all.

I'm aware that I'm probably going to get slaughtered on here for stating that opinion though. If I give to charity personally I always try to ensure it's something that helps people locally or at least people in Britain.
 
I'd definitely go with it being fed too little of the right stuff instead of too little overall.

Too many parents seem to be of the attitude 'i work long hours and don't have time to cook proper meals, lets take this out of a box and stick it in the microwave', mine were included in this i'm afraid to say.
 
Education of parents and children is the only thing that can help. If they're not willing to accept what diets can be good/bad then there aren't really any options.

Malnutrition
Malnutrition is the condition that results from taking an unbalanced diet in which certain nutrients are lacking, in excess (too high an intake), or in the wrong proportions
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realBabelfish said:
what should be done?


cancel oversees aid? etc.
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What makes you think for a moment it's due to lack of money? A box of cereal can feed a small kid in the mornings for a week and costs a couple of quid. It's down to bad parenting once again. So your solution is to throw more money at bad parents? What do you think they'll spend it on? That's right more fags and bingo


You're a wet lefty-liberal aren't you?
 
Malnourished does not = starving.

Chances are a large proportion of adults are malnourished as well and probably for the same reason, bad diet.
 
When I was in school the normal lunch for kids seemed to be sandwich, crisps/savoury snack, fruit/veg, chocolate/cake and then juice or can of soft drink.

Some people would often just have sandwich, crisps, chocolate, coke. Every day.

Is this different to what kids have now?

Are children becoming more fussy and not just eating what they're being given? Parents giving kids what they want all the time?
 
realBabelfish said:
just been on radio2 (jeremy vine) that 1 in 5 school kids arent being fed enough.

clearly for a 'developed' country this is inexcusable.

what should be done?

cancel oversees aid? etc.

your thoughts.

(i know there will lots of 'let the scroungers die' from the right wing nutters we have but a lot of people are struggling at the moment)
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what a load of rubbish

there is no excuse for not feeding your children in the UK

healthy food can be bought and cooked for next to no money

the real problem here is people wasting their money on non essentials instead of buying and preparing proper real actual food

woman on radio 4 this morning was complaining about people feeding their family in mcdonalds everyday for £3 - you could buy a ton of pasta and veg for this much every week!

why would stopping aid to other countries help anyway? we already have an excellent benefits system for families with no money / jobs (some would argue its too good!)

"our unemployed people are spending their benefits on takeaway food instead of healthy home cooked food! quick lets cut off the people who really have nothing!"
 
I listened to the interviews with the charity involved on Radio 4 this morning - a single parent mother who'd ended up hospital through malnutrition due to spending all her money on rent/bills/food for her kid. Her benefits didn't cover any more than that. When she asked for more, the option they gave her was fostering her child instead. She didn't have malnutrition through poor diet, she had it due to not eating most days, only eating her daughter's left overs, of which usually, there was none. She said "I drank plenty of water".

Thanks to the assistance of a charity, she's now training to be a nurse and has a job and isn't suffering symptoms of starvation more akin to things seen TV during foreign disaster relief appeals. Why does it need a charity to do this?

The same charity involved somewhere in London are feeding over 100 school children daily due to their parents, for whatever reason hardly feeding them at all, never mind correctly. There's a 5 year old that turns up every morning on their own instead of going to school.

There's hundreds of thousands of children that are eligible for free school dinners that aren't being given them.

The benefits system has very little to do with this, although the current attitudes and arbitrary cuts aren't helping. Everything to do with social services or lack of. We're regressing back to Victorian times.

The adjacent item on Radio 4 was about The Shard and £50m penthouse apartments. :rolleyes: And an interview with a solicitor wailing on behalf of people who own second houses in France and their French tax rises (which brings their tax burden inline with French domiciles).
 
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It's the Tories fault. I don't know why or what specific policy but it is most definitely their fault!
 
Deluxe1 said:
I bet the parents of the kids involved have enough money for cigarettes and alcohol.
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Well that's ok then, ignore the starving children, their parents are idiots. :o

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A regular Dr. Barnardo.
 
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