‘We need to break the junk food cycle’: how to fix Britain’s failing food system

The Audio Long Read

The Guardian

Society & Culture

4.3 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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From ultra-processed junk to failing supply chains and rocketing food poverty, there are serious problems with the way the UK eats. Will the government ever act? By Bee Wilson. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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1:24.3	I'm going to be looking for another equally unrealistic weight loss plan.
1:30.5	No matter how similar the new diet was to the last,
1:32.2	it gave me a sense that I was doing something productive about what I saw as the problem of my body.
1:38.1	Personal weight loss diets have a lot in common with obesity policies in England and beyond.
1:43.1	For a start,
1:44.8	the sheer quantity of these policies is astonishing.
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1:58.8	Dolly Theos and Martin White,
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