Tag: Diet

  • Food banks, nutrition and psychological wellbeing

    Food insecurity is a critical issue in the United Kingdom in light of poverty rates which have increased significantly since the introduction of so-called austerity policies adopted by the Conservative/Liberal Democrat coalition government from 2010. Despite a change of government in 2024, a poverty rate of 18% of the UK population after housing costs combined with the cost-of-living crisis of the early-mid 2020s has meant…