Five-year-olds in Britain are, on average, up to seven centimetres shorter than children in other wealthy nations, new data has revealed.
The stark figures reported in The Times were met with shock by many, with a poor national diet being blamed for the height difference. But for one leading doctor in Greater Manchester, it’s ‘not a surprise’.
GP Dr Zahid Chauhan OBE warns that the country is yet to see the more serious consequences of malnutrition, which he says is sweeping the UK as the cost of living crisis rolls on. Among the places worst affected are the more deprived boroughs of Greater Manchester which see huge numbers of children living in poverty – and their health suffers for it.
