Agenda 2019

https://www.facebook.com/DrChatterjee/videos/1062727547188629/ The NHS is crumbling under the weight of chronic disease. This is largely driven by diet and lifestyle factors. As well as lifestyle,we should also be looking at the amount of preservatives, additives and other assorted "nasties" that manufactures pump into all sorts of food. We can choose what to eat and drink, but we have no control over what the manufactures and producers augment them with.  Legislation is implemented to control sugar and salt content of food and we should work towards legislation to control food additives also.

  http://www.theguardian.com/money/2013/sep/05/home-cooking-decline-low-income-ready-meals Home cooking in decline as low-income households turn to ready meals       This Guardian article and many of the comments on the page, clearly miss the point and the message. Buying the cheapest options on the supermarket shelves, and then changing from Tesco, Asda or one of the other major outlets, to Aldi or Netto or one of the others, is for many people today purely an economic choice. As everyday household costs increase and choices have to be made, the price paid for food often one of the first savings made. Add to this the increased number of people claiming benefits and the cutting of benefit amounts the disposable income of significant numbers of families has been drastically reduced. Foodbank    There should therefore be no surprise in the phenomenal increase in the numbers of people who now have to resort to foodbanks....