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Nutrition: Diets profiled in low-income families
By Melanie Defries,
Nursery World,
22 November 2007
Many children from deprived households have unhealthy diets with too much processed food and a shortage of fruit, vegetables and fibre, new research has found.
The study of the diets of low-income households, commissioned by the Food Standards Agency, claims to be the first-ever national survey of the diets of 3,728 people from the most deprived households in the UK. Children aged between two and ten were found to consume over a third more refined sugar than the maximum advised by the Government and food experts, with soft drinks being the main source. Saturated fat intakes also exceeded recommended daily amounts. Children from low-income households were less...
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