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Ray, my post 1 does not mention statistics, in fact I left out any reference to them.
The evident message in the KCC profile, reported on This is Kent, is that many children in Dover District are living in families entirely dependent on benefits: 4,394 children.
This does appear to be the main reason for child poverty here in our area.
Lesley pointed out something I've been writing about in the past too, even recently on the Forum: that diets can be a cause of bad health.
It doesn't take much to figure out that for a few pounds one can buy junk-food, grub, low on vitamins but high on cheap saturated and non-saturated fat that's been added to the ingredients.
This must be the case on a regular basis for poor families, because if you haven't got the money, there are many things you can't afford.
I fear it may get more and more the habit, the more families descend into economic difficulties.
Malnutrition in fact, as Lesley states, is often not a lack of food, but the same food on a regular scale. For example, almost only rice for the poor in India, almost only maiz for the poor in Central America...
Here it might be cheap grub food.
We need a local campaign in food-awareness, courses in cooking for adults and children, and a fund for families who clearly cannot financially cope with everyday expenses.
Such fund would be for specific food only, such as vegetables, proper meet and fruit, in the form of vouchers, for example.
About two years ago I had tried bringing something along these lines up in a political party, but it got silenced off. Forget politicians! And forget statistics, which have nothing to do with all this. This is something which we will have to be looking into in the future, one day when we have a Local Government that cares for the people!