What’s the problem with only eating chips?

Beyond Today

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4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Amid the Brexit chaos, there’s another story that went viral this week. A teenage boy in Bristol has lost his eyesight because of his poor diet. Since leaving primary school, he had been eating only French fries, Pringles and white bread, as well as an occasional slice of ham or a sausage. The story provoked strong opinions about what we should and shouldnt be eating. We speak to author and journalist Eve Simmons about our complicated national relationship with ‘good’ and ‘bad’ food. Robbie Davison, who runs a social enterprise that provides hot meals for people in poverty, explains what well-meaning people get wrong about poverty and bad diets. If you feel like you may be affected by issues in this programme, you can find support on the BBC Action Line - https://www.bbc.co.uk/actionline/ Producers: Lucy Hancock, Seren Jones Mixed by Nico Raufast Editor: John Shields

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.6	Hello.
0:07.0	Hello.
0:08.0	Welcome to Beyond Today with me, Tina DeHili, a space to ask one big question about one big story.
0:14.0	Today, what's the problem with only eating chips?
0:27.0	Yesterday, reports of a teenager who went blind from eating a diet of chips, crisps and white
0:38.6	bread went viral. Despite the Brexit chaos and we will get back into that tomorrow when we hope things are a bit clearer.
0:46.0	This story was the most read article on the BBC website all day.
0:50.0	It was sent to our team on WhatsApp and so many people I bumped into last night kept bringing it up
0:56.9	It's a tragic story one that everyone has an opinion about
1:02.3	A set of circumstances.
1:03.0	Well, you choose how much to exercise, right?
1:06.0	The role of...
1:07.0	Myself have chips every day and very little veg.
1:11.0	But that has an effect...
1:12.0	The kid said he had an aversion to most food textures so he couldn't eat it.
1:17.8	Balshoot.
1:18.8	It wasn't his adoptive parents' fault.
1:20.6	They all really worked hard to change it. It was just a very...
1:24.0	If you have a choice whether to eat a vegan sausage or not.
1:27.0	Yes.
1:28.0	The public reaction to it made us think about the national conversation around food,
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