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Inside Health

What soaring food prices are doing to our health

Inside Health

BBC

Health & Fitness, Science

4.4575 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

The cost of everything is soaring, but what toll is that taking on our health? We’re at a food pantry scheme in Coventry meeting mums Danielle and Ellie to find out how hard putting food on the table has become. Dr Megan Blake and Prof Sir Michael Marmot help explain what that does to our bodies now and in the long term. Get in touch: InsideHealth@bbc.co.uk Presenter: James Gallagher Producer: Geraldine Fitzgerald

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0:00.0

Hello, I'm Greg Jenna and good news, Your Dead to Me is back for a new series. Here we go. Yes, we'll explore Emperor Nero's notorious reign with Professor Marybeard and Patton Oswald. I would not want my daughter having the remote control, not alone an empire. We'll dissect the decadent life of Philippe Duke-Dor-Leon with Tom Allen. I've often tried to pretend I'm an aristocrat and being very quickly knocked down. And there'll be so much more with comedians like Olga Koch, Mike Mosniak and Rihalina. I'm excited. You're dead to me, the comedy podcast that takes history seriously. Listen first on BBC Sounds. Hello, I've come to Coventry to look at the challenges of putting food on the table amid the cost of living crisis.

0:39.9

On Inside Health, we're going to be discussing the damage that can do to people's health, both in the short and in the long term.

0:46.6

So I'm just crossing the road now from the cathedral because we're going to go into a place called the pantry.

0:51.9

It's run by the charity, St Giles.

0:55.3

Here, people pay a discounted rate for a wide variety of different foods. Let's come in and have a look.

1:03.3

It's a very noisy door, but apart from that, if you came in here, you'd be mistaken for thinking

1:07.9

you're in a posh cafe or kind of like a farm shop because you've got

1:10.9

wooden crates full of fresh fruit and vegetables. Friges, again, full of fresh foods, coffee machine

1:16.7

in the corner and it's a very warm and friendly place.

1:21.4

This is celeriac. It's the root of the celery. You can use it like mashed potatoes,

1:30.7

dough famoes, roast potatoes in your stews.

1:35.6

You just cut the top and the bottom and the sides off and you just use it like a normal potato.

1:41.3

The pantry's full of helpful advice like that, and it's getting busier as food prices saw.

1:46.0

Just last week, the retail analysts canter estimated the average weekly shop had gone up by nearly £800 a year. So I've come to meet young mum Ellie, who's vegan, as well as Serafina,

1:53.0

who's her guide round the pantry.

1:55.0

Hi, Ellie, nice to meet you.

1:57.0

Hi, nice to meet you.

1:58.0

And who's this little one?

1:59.0

This is Henrietta, a year old.

2:01.6

Yeah.

2:02.6

Very cute.

2:03.6

And you've come here with Serafina who's going to take it around.

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