A new project launched last month to tackle mental and physical health problems through healthy eating.
(Picture: Alexandra Rose Charity. Photo by Liz Finlayson/Vervate.)Poor diets are causing an increase in mental health related problems among children and low-income families are being hit particularly hard, a leading GP and medical expert has warned.
Professor Sir Sam Everington, Vice President of the British Medical Association (BMA) told the Standard that the prescription of anti-depressants for children had “massively increased” during the Covid pandemic and that the mental health picture for young people was “dire” as a result of poor access to nutrition and health inequality.
