It’s not all about income. It’s about the cost of food, the cost of transport, so whatever pensions are being paid, the cost of living has risen nearly 200% The worst increases have been rentals, so shops, homes, rooms, are unaffordable and the fall out is the poor, just can’t afford to breath any more.
It is entirely the fault of the government, who refuse to curb these runaway prices. All these rises are just not necessary. This is causing anger when immigrants are housed, fed, and treated far better FOR FREE!!! Especially when they have not contributed a penny!!!! Why should Britons have to choose between rent, food, clothing. Pensioners cannot work, but some are bring forced to do so, while 'others' live in hotels, are fed, have money to spend - yes, they are given spending money,whilst Brits are forced to use food banks?
@@RollcageHiggins-uf9nmBoat arrivals started after Brexit. Prior to this the UK worked in partnership with the French border service to prevent illegal entry and lives put at great risk in boats.
but it is about income not cost, things will go up sure. But wages havent kept up with inflation for almost the past 20 years. If wages did keep up with inflation - cost would not be so much of an issue
For all those doubters! I don't smoke or drink have never driven a car , don't go out, haven't been on holiday for 25 years, even when working! I have rarely bought take out and have never been overweight! I've been in perpetual fuel poverty for twenty years! Now unable to work face a very real choice between heating and eating! So yes! Poverty is very real. I don't need sympathy. Just stating facts!
I work on minimum wage, I'm single. I rent a bedroom in a nice 3 beds detached house, living with another housemate. I go on unpaid holiday 2 months every summer, sea, mountains, trips. I drive a 20k nice car paid in full, I have 30k invested in stocks, no debts. I eat out with friends sometimes, I go to gym, and so on. And I am in the UK for only 6 years, coming from an ex-communist country with no money. I live a very comfortable life on a low income. So? Why are so many British poor?
You said it yourself , you live single in a room share... Most people in UK have to pay for a flat or home with all bills included as well as dependents. Do you think much money is left then on a low income ? It's all well and good having a small salary for one person , but not when it comes to supporting a family.
Watching this from Denmark I simply don't understand why people put up with it. It doesn't have to be like that. I lived 2 years in Burnley and saw poverty. But I also saw people letting themselves be divided into us and them. The British people will need to stand together if changes have to be made.
Problem is, there is no homogeneous British people anymore. There is no common culture, we are nothing more than a bunch of consumers. The elite control our banks, laws, education, and media. There is no emergency exit.
@@DJWESG1 Middle class is bread and butter of economy... If middle class is low- usually it means poor country with no great perspective for future growth.
Hunger and weight loss in one of the biggest economies in the world - BBC Newsnight 1645pm 28.6.23 it wouldnt surprise me if some of 'em were in the same boat... duuno which major high street retail company debt we're all covering but it does take the pish, to some degree... "cost of living crisis"? what the heck was it deemed 50 year ago, 30 year ago... etc..?. seems, in my personal experience, it 's the same-old-same-old.... never mind people suddenly realising things are a bit tough. but tough luck!!!!
Hunger and weight loss in one of the biggest economies in the world - BBC Newsnight 1643pm 28.6.23 or food and eat... depends who's cooking. flippancy aside... i am happy to meet with ex history students who made it thus far... thus far being their managing to fend off a bunch of irate and middling knee jerk reactionaries who took umbrage at one particular point in history being scrutinized as opposed to their interpretation of history being scrutinized....
@@husseinhussein466 Comments on ‘Hunger and weight loss in one of the biggest economies in the world - BBC Newsnight’ 2120pm 28.6.23 tell me about it. though i still dont see why this is big news just cos a few other folk, folk who probably thought they were immune to such miseries... were shocked that it happened to them... i can cast my mind back to various other abodes i have lived in and this hovel i now dwell in, in my 50's, is the only property i have been able to afford to heat - and that's on an ad hoc basis. iknow it is encouraged for folk to save and prepare for future rainy days, so to speak, but which ever sect of the government it is doesn't want you to save or put aside anything to tide you over. it must require those few people it hinders from saving to prove it's point... or make examples of. i dont know.... this b.s only seems to be a major issue if folk make a big show of themselves and wander around giving it woe is me. a great deal just grit their teeth and get on with it. it's no new thing, no new innovation this being poor or struggling.. boring as that is.. maybe it's the rise of the nouveau poor?
@@markdowse3572 Comments on ‘Hunger and weight loss in one of the biggest economies in the world - BBC Newsnight’ 0443am 29.6.23 too busy dealing with issues abroad to sort their own countries out re: health hunger and cruddy quality of drinking water etc etc... a very weird world, sir..
Until British people gather as a united people against poverty and actually stand in a general strike their government will not act in their interest. The French understand this and regularly force their government to heel.
that its the reason they are French... you cant do that, because peaceful protesting is illegal and you get arrested for... so you will not do it, or your king will be upset! the French dont care for it, they also dont care for the special Brits... because more Brits are special care adults, helpless and no brain to work with!
I can only agree. I have only been on universal credit/jobseeker’s allowance once. I’m usually not someone you’d expect to find there, as I used to have a bit more than average income. But I had a burn-out and couldn’t work for a few months. Anyways, for those who do not know (I didn’t!!): UC/JSA just covers your basic rent, and then you get given ~300 quid on top for the month. Of which you first have to pay your flat bills (so you’re left with around 200 quid), and of that you have to pay everything else. That leaves you with about 6.50 a day. Which you kind of have to all use for food. You can barely pay for anything else. It’s such a bad system. I’m originally from Germany (have been here for almost a decade now). There you get covered all your flat costs, i.e. rent *and* bills, which makes sense to include, because it’s not like you can not have water or electricity or heating. And then you get given a decent amount for covering living costs as well. You get extra money for educating yourself further, etc. I don’t understand the system here. What’s the point of social security, if you don’t feel secure at all. I was lucky, I just took a break, and I also had a bit of savings left. But there are many people who can’t just pick up work again after a few months, and who don’t have any savings. With the British social security system, all they’re allowed to do is exist and vegetate. It’s bleak. It’s not dignified!
Do you have higher tax rate in Germany than in UK? Government has to balance the book, unless you're the US having the privilege to print money for nothing and still don't risk hyper inflation, because the world will have to foot your bill.
@@anonomous8719No they landlords will take less profit. They should not be taking any as it is. How can you get poorer tenants to pay for your asset. And yet you still want said asset to go up in value forever. Talk about having your cake and eating it!
That’s a going out of business strategy right there. No profit means you won’t want to let it out to anyone the renter might damage the asset, also the property doesn’t go up in value forever especially if the renter market becomes 0 profit.
war is not the actual reason.. lab-generated covid was the excuse for everything, now they are selling the war agenda. World Economic Forum tycoons, corrupt governments and human greed are the culprit.
So what does the French government do that the U.K. government doesn’t, apart from the fact they help the immigrants on French beaches to find their way here.
They are using climate change nonsense to close the farms down all over the world.Then the plebs can eat insects, and bill gates''s Frankinsten foods.While the rich still eat meat and veg.
Agree. The rich keep getting richer, we have trillionaires now, and the poor getting poorer. They pay pennies in taxes. It’s cheaper to live if you’re rich than if you’re poor. How is that right?
Is it just me or does every single video like this out of the UK feature a ton of people who all whine about how the government should do more for them?
I've been eating once a day for 30years now and sometimes just live on a mug of milk per day😢. I'm so frugal and don't waste anything. Haven't bought clothes/shoes in 18 years so I keep recycling my old stuff (still have some from 1970s😅). I don't go on holidays and don't go out even when invited. My lifes boring but I'd rather this than be homeless on the streets again. What a choice! Our politicians have choices of 3 homes in the uk, 2 or more overseas and loads of holidays...how nice. I'm more highly educated than most of them. Politicians are liars/thieves and have no shame! My rent, water, energy, gas, transport, broadband take all my salary. I have been declined housing benefits and UC because I earn a few pounds over the threshold. Yet I work full time. So much is so wrong and my health is in deep jeopardy. The rich get richer and wasteful. Landlords are way too greedy. I'd rather starve than be cold or be homeless on the streets again😢😢
Greed , war , power, gluttony , disregard for rescources and our planet superced hunger, climatic changes and humanity . Next, geneticaly lab grown food and a recycling of food even ever increasing plastics in food as fillers never mind worst scenarios.
@chitterville7599 it's called neoliberalism, capitalism on steroids where more is never enough and sustainability a dirty word. Privatisation of all public services and assets, deregulation, casualisation of labor and ever lower taxes and tax loopholes for big corporate and billionaires. Brexit, based on lies and xenophobic fearmongering didn't help neither
@@davidnoelfranks1124 now now David... The Banks won't go hungry because the people borrowing to eat will be paying more and more interest... funny the bbc has a piece running on how bad loan sharks treat people but then you realise the banks will take everything you own... maybe I should just borrow from the nutter down the road at least he might have some morals
in ancient times uk would have been maybe the poorest , they ate crumbs , cause usay war was seen diferent , they are a region not a country , ur so eng stupid u say island then.
Nothing much has changed. In 1967 I lived in a bedsit with shared toilet and bathroom and remember having to choose between putting money in the electric meter or buying food.
the poor will always be poor whatever the economy performance or who is in charge. i used to live like that when I left Uni and had a crap paying job, but obviously vastly improved my income over last 20 years so don't have to ive in poverty and squalor.
Every one of the people interviewed about the health effects of the high cost of food is obese. Sorry, but skipping meals is probably exactly what they need, If their ribs were showing, as in countries with real food shortages, then we might have a real problem here. But the only threat I can see from "food insecurity" in the UK is the potential loss of your enormous belly and chafing thighs.
I live on 50 pounds per week and I live comfortably. Well, I don't pay rent, use my bike for transportation (a bike I found in a rubbish bin which I fixed using parts from other discarded bikes), don't heat my flat, don't go to pubs, don't buy clothes, and I pay less council tax cos my income is low. Still, I have electricity, water, hot water, internet, phones (both mobile and static), and I eat well (buying reduced-to-clear food, not necessarily the food I want to eat that is). I don't go to food banks because I don't think I need it. I can even afford to have a beer or a buckfast once per week! I also travel abroad about once per year (courtesy of Ryanair the airfare is about 45 pounds in both directions). I have a lot of spare time (as I work for up to 15 hours per week) which I put to good use and I sleep for 9 hours every night. My life is boring but easy. Is it possible to live on 30 pounds? Yes, but it is not comfortable. I've done it. It is more like survival though. Still, even such a lifestyle is better than that of most working people in China, India, or Africa. Bottom line: life in UK is good. It is a pitty that most Brits don't appreciate how good it is.
How many smoke, drink, go on holidays, drive cars, go out to play bingo? I feel more for people who work long hours to care for their families without doing any of previously stated.
The video isn’t just about people on benefits it’s also about poor wages. My son works all hours for hardly any money. A few trips to the dentist recently for impacted wisdom tooth has literally cleaned him out. I’m on benefits and disabled and my money just isn’t enough, certainly can’t afford holidays. Plus I now have to pay for a carer to do the jobs my son used to do. So please don’t blame people that can’t work. How about a bit of compassion?
5 decades of neoliberalism, the Nobel prize winning social-economic theory turned ideology and the privatisation of all public services and assets, deregulation, casualisation of labor and ever lower taxes for big corporate and billionaires to trickle back down on the rest of us, created unprecedented inequality and homelessness.
@@endryl08 I'm not going to sacrifice myself just to chase 1 or 2 free plates. Too much unhealthy food comes for free. The reason is too much artificial sweeteners in the food.
As much as the water is wet and the sky is blue there is some middle class WASP out there who is criticising them for being poor, instead of blaming the Tories for causing it. As Tory policies aren't aimed at middle class WASPs, they just don't know what it's like and still parrot back Thatchers quote that it's the poors fault for being poor.
lol how do u not know french bread in japan could be made of usa horse barley , or rice flour? usa has arrows in asia , why would they not be poor , cause they eat bad? u think tarzan only Fss monkey?
@@cosmincoco3679 : The issue with the UK and the EU is not because there is no food. It is because of powerplay. i.e. Country A in the EU could tell you to go away.. and that, what you produce, need to go to them etc. And then, it needs to be at a set price ? And then... another place.. could be using the benefits.. i.e. They would take the money from country B.. and then live and spend it in country C... So this is why.. UK is down.. And the UK government tried to close all those loops.. so that it is survivable ? Lots of people have ran off from this country already. And this is why so many immigrants, thought that this was a chance to come in ? But many doesn't pay the taxes though. They remit them back. i.e. They don't stay. They have no intention to stay. So the cycle goes round...
You could be living near a farm... and they could be producing food.. but you are not allowed to buy it from them directly. And no, you cannot even be jealous about that either. It's like THAT. Messed up ? A lot. The funny thing is... a lot of people, would use "AI" to show where all the "food bank" exists in the UK. But nobody has made a map.. of ALL the farms in the UK ? They SHOULD make it so !!! So therefore, lots of suppliers, know who to go to and why !!! You would think that people would work together, wouldn't you ??....
The poor being overweight because they have limited food choices is nothing new. During the Depression of the 1920-30s in the USA, doctors noted that they had witnessed gross obesity amongst the poor communities of the southern states, both poor black and poor white. It was commonly called bread and potato fat because these people had no choice but to eat a nutritionally poor high carbohydrate diet. For the poor today, things are much the same.
I doubt they have choices of organic foods or healthy options. They'd have to eat what they can afford. And many of them might already be suffering from different diseases.
Do some research. Obesity is a common symptom of an inadequate diet dominated by low cost , processed carbohydrates and low in healthy, more costly foods. Leads to chronic diseases and premature death. These people are not starved but certainly appear undernourished.
If you just rely on the teussel trust you WON'T get the full picture. There are lots of smaller providers. There are more people going hungry than most realise.
When I was young in the 70s all I heard was “you’ve got it easy compared to us” Oh we had it tough compared to you. I was looking forward to using these phrases when I was old. But I can’t…. The generation trying to make a life now have got it tough all right. In 1985 I walked into a building society with my fiancé and walked out with a 100% mortgage with just legal fees to pay. I had a steady job and we lived very well. I realise that things have got real tough all round now but this one thing keeps niggling me. The years under the Tories have not been good for the common person, I watched since Thatchers days how they eroded our rights and crushed strikes. I’m not blaming them for the world issues that they impact finances but I am blaming them reducing our standard of living to what it is now. When you look at the sleaze, the crimes, the fiddling and lying from them you have to realise they are no friends of us.
The 1970s were a really bad time for the UK. My dad told me he was a married professional doctor for years but the bank wouldn't give him a loan for a car, he had to give the bank the deeds to his home as collateral. Income tax was 83%, successful businesses and famous people fled the country. He would come home everyday working late at the hospital, to find his unionised neighbours sat at home refusing to work as they stuck to a 3 day week. Power cuts left many evenings in darkness and trash piled high in the streets.
Happens everywhere but worst of all in socialist countries. North Korea Socialist country South Korea Capitalist country although theres nothing perfect i know which one has less people starving
I would hardly call North Korea a socialist country. From Wikipedia “Socialism is a political ideology that aims to make people equal. It generally focuses on equality of wealth (eg. similar wages, housing, education, healthcare), although since the 1960s, it has often focused on equality of power” and North Korea definitely doesn’t have equality of power and equal standards of living and also the resources are owned by the state(communism) rather than the people (socialism)
I can't believe just how many ignorant comments there are related to the weight of these people who are obviously struggling. The women in this video are all post-menopause, which means that muscle mass declines at a rapid rate, metabolism slows at an increased rate, and fat retention around the middle increases remarkably. You can eat very little, and still appear overweight with a large tummy and jowls. Combine this with the fact that so many cheap foods which fill you up are very processed high-fat high carbohydrate foods, and they will appear overweight even though they are extremely malnourished.
sure the loot of $45 trillion is almost gone. Churchill diverted food from Bengal in 1943 for UK (in the name of feeding the soldiers), 6 million of us (Bengalees died). Do not you think their curse do not have any effect? Days of easy money is gone. Now only hope you have to use dirty money from all places of earth
"Supermarkets deny making money from soaring prices." Maybe not, but they do make billions of profit. Their greed is obnoxious. I truly hope that one day, we ordinary people will successfully fight the 5% leeches. Because that's what they are - leeches.
@@carmenl163 Not completely, but you can choose where to spend your money and what food to spend it on. (Don't you have a Co-Op in your town?) Also, everybody could grow some simple green veg on a windowsill or on a patch of garden if they have one, or forage some plants from green spaces. (Every little helps, as they say!) Don't live as a victim but take control and a sense of responsibility for your own life. Continually blaming others is a coward's way out.
@@vatsmith8759 this unwillingness to see what's going on in society and righteously blaming the people who are responsible is a whole new illness in society. I'm not acting like a victim, I'm telling it how it is. Growing our own veggies on the windowpane and staying silent is just looking the other way.
Watching this made me so grateful becoming an Indonesian it is warm along the year here, and you can find cheap and affordable food most of the time. By the way UK is an archipelago, you may try to develop the fishing sector, i think there are many fishes that can be taken within the territory of UK, may be it can help
indians were told as a proud species , i one ate flour with water and cacao cooked by me in a pan , and my uncle didn't wanted to give me money to buy a bread , sometimes ppl u know are the hole man , ur a very weak person.
When I watch these things, I must say Africa is blessed but cursed with corruption and mismanagement. Cause we have good soil for food, good weather all year round we don’t have to think of heating up our homes even in the rainy season. If only we can do better.
Africa is kicking out white farmers and giving the farmland to government members where it sits idle, starving it's people into desperation, becoming migrants and criminals to survive.
Yet there are more billionaires and now even trillionaires than ever. All paying pennies in taxes. If you have money it’s cheaper to live than if you’re poor. Until they pay their fair share the wealth gap will continue to widen.
That's right, tax them so high they stop investing in this country, then they will close their business, making many unemployed and not only claiming benefits but also not paying taxes, but don't worry, you will always be able to blame Brexit if they do.
and extortionate corporate greed pushing prices because they want and narcissistic money obsessed shareholders who will be never satisfied , how sad living life as selfish , heartless git ,who only cares about money
No auto adjustment until the politicians suddenly think of, right, we shall increase the amount. 😅 it is low income benefits to support people who are working but with low income or between job/looking for job with small amount of no saving.
I'm in South Africa and we are experiencing the same exorbitant Rize in food prices, particularly basic items. Even trying to make bread yourself from scratch, is not a solution, because each ingredient on it's own has also doubled or tripled in price. The price of petrol rising by double digits on the back of Russia's invasion of Ukraine has a lot to do with it, because it costs that much more to get food to market. We also have an electricity crisis with rolling blackouts sometimes up to 10 or 12 hours a day, also taking a toll on the economy and causing price increases in electricity which once again causes a rize in inflation and an extra toll on the community. The problem we have on top of it all is an unemployment rate of almost 50%, a rize in crime and a corrupt Government that does nothing but exacerbate the problems. We now also have an outbreak of Cholera in many areas, because the Government is not maintaining the water purification systems and also due to the many power cuts at the plants. I read an article today that 35000 chickens (obviously I those long chicken batteries they keep them in - poor tortured animals) died in just one province due to the power cuts and resulting heat. How many people could have been fed with 35000 chickens? I don't know when all of this cost of living increases are going to end. When we die in heaps? 🇿🇦
@Wordywriter I am in South Africa. An increase in price for everything in our country is insane. Sometimes I think it man made. Call me crazy but I feel like that😢
& during the 2nd world war people with gardens or yards were encouraged to grow their own food, but a lot of people would rather have flower gardens rather than eat fresh food.@@Gracie765
the wealthiest in the world are in the US; the more you give the poor and those who cant or wont work, the more the free money and food is taken for granted [monarchs have compounded money for maybe 1000 yrs - that's life. POTUS does the same]
where is all the weight loss in London, Derby, Birmingham, Leicester and Liverpool where I all travel to on a regular basis i only see the queues for the expensive junk food places bigger and bigger.. Obesity is worse now than in 2018.
This is really disgusting ? Because, I recently left Glasgow on a short trip. And I could see, just as much of the various "growing income"... but.. where is the basic amenities? A lot of shops are closed. And if the top end of people doesn't spend, then it doesn't spend ? And the bottom end of the people, aren't the farm owners or the food producers. And these kind of food banks, are often actually.. even more expensive... They are super expensive down South here, cos people aren't doing their pricing and costing properly either. So... Why so many tins ? When we joined the EU, we slowly integrated that wealth together, and everybody had a stake in society. Netherlands grew a lot of vegetables for us. I didn't see as many tins. And when the UK farms slowly closed up as well. Instead of building houses, in old locations to knock down and rebuild. They were built on farm lands ! And now that we have brexited, and many more items do not reach us... where is the health level ? A lot of farms in the UK are also actually NOT selling to UK consumers as well. Why ? Cos they signed deals and merged their farms together with EU ones, and they try to sell at a higher price point. And even that itself is an issue... playing and offsetting the pricing of food. Which it should be low, but it goes up quite a lot. These owners and companies, doesn't want to make a loss any more... and yeh, they need to make more money, in order to subsidise the rest of the EU !!!!! Meanwhile... the farmers.. in the UK, most of their kids have gone onto universities... and actually reduced the size of farming. Even the hospitality sector... there aren't those small but local farms.. and local city farms.. or charities.. nobody is doing those any more, as a safety net. It didn't take long, did it ? The city that I reside in... I have seen lots of people moved away, cos they too are scared that, there isn't the business.. and they don't get the prices.... and doesn't want to drop the food prices. So then, they up and leave to an even bigger city ! I don't know if people realises what is going on....
weight loss wasnt mentioned ......but go onto any council estate and the majority of the 'poor' are over-weight.... more often with a nice car on the driveway
Maybe they work but live in a council estate?? I can't imagine anyone on 24k a year benefits with 3 kids having a luxury life style but maybe your right just because you think your in the higher classes? Newsflash: if you work for a wage then your working class
@@groggs321 many are in work, but the culture now is to phone up for a fatteening junk food pizza chips, etc to be delivered rather than cook a wholesome meal at home; thats one reason they make themselves poor the kids also sit in front of computer - no exercise
@@groggs321 i live on a 'council/social housing estate'. i see v few morals from younger families espec - eg drunkenness, playing loud music [inside and in the gardens with Bar-b-que], abusing their pets, fighting... Wages and benefits are spent the day it comes in
Although this is happening all over the world, regarding food security and other aspects relating to the global economical downturn. The 3rd world countries are feeling the effects of this change worse than the developed nations. In the 3rd world, there are no government interventions such as benefits and handouts. It's so sad and hopeless, I think if this continues, then we're going to see more conflicts and mass immigration. Ukraine war and civil wars are only a start...
what about 40 pension age , oil money? and why would u call then 3rd world countrys that do better now , maybe because they do now trade instead of uk? are u a idiot arab?
Y'all had to know that that starvation was going to come back around. London is burning. And that bridge is falling. Get your shovels out lads and build more mass graves
Less think tanks. Less central banks. Less government. Less technology. Less corporate stakehoder capitalism. More Corpus Christi. Return to the church.
Brits were lulled to sleep by the drip,drip,drip of nostalgia and false security by the monarchy and by Brexit propaganda. When will the monarchy's finances be investigated and downsized? When will the Tories lose their hold on Brits? Tories have had a hold on Brits for ages,(the Eton mystique) and the attachment to "tradition" i.e that's our lot." People interviewed seem to feel very powerless.
Imagine young people with low pay job, student loan to pay back and no saving. Lots of mid age and elderlies are using their savings to cope with this cost of living crisis. People can’t move to better pay job because the salary can’t cover the rent and bills, ended up stay at family house or even move back to family house.
Unfortunately, this is all over the world. And it’s just as hard for disabled and elderly in the United States. As a disabled person and 50 years old I don’t get enough money through disability to pay all my bills and provide for food for myself. The government here only allows me to get $48 a month in food. I am diabetic and have several other health issues that require a special diet to prevent those Health problems from getting worse and the cost of food doesn’t allow me to get the healthy food choices. In the United States it’s all about the rich getting more money and the poor either dying or staying poor. The cost of everything has gone up without the real need for it to go up. Look at how much more money the corporations are making verses what everyone from the middle class and lower is making. The rich get richer through lies and price increases. The economy is based on lies. There is no reason for recessions if the rich are making billions of dollars more now than four years ago. One thing that would help stop this is taxes. Raise their taxes instead of allowing the big corporations claim they are losing money and giving them welfare breaks. While the rich get more rich the people are suffering and need welfare just to survive. Tax wealthy people, corporations and religious bodies at the rate the rest of us get taxed. That would solve a lot of problems.
Despite all the problems that you are facing, you should be grateful you are not a Nigerian like myself who has to deal with a thousand times the proportion of difficulties you have listed.
@@longjidalu3845 just because I didn’t list more difficulties doesn’t mean they don’t exist. Like anyone else I’d probably have been typing for a very long time to list everything. But just as I or you have to live through multiple difficulties it doesn’t diminish anyone else’s experiences. I’m very sure there are many many more people that have things in life worse than you or I. I cannot speak for others only myself. I however will not speak down on anyone that tells their own story as it’s theirs and no one else’s to speak on. I can list that almost every day in my life I have to watch over my own shoulder just to keep alive as many in my country would love to see me and others like me dead or locked away from the world, that just waking up is a struggle for several reasons, my inability to work, who I am, who wants me dead and why, am I going to be able to eat, or can I even leave my home, so many other things. But these are my life and I do feel for those that have it worse than I do. But being that I can’t fix my own problems I definitely can’t fix anyone else’s. All I can do is bring attention to my issues and share and maybe giving others the courage to share their own and so they know they are not alone in their pain and suffering and fears. I hope you are able to some how find solutions or relief with your troubles. I hope things get better for you since that’s all I can do. Just hope.
Nutrient poor, carb rich food is the cheapest. So if you can afford some food but not enough, you eat less healthily and can put on weight. Inflammation and bloating may also play a role because of a lack of fruit and veg. Then you pass another level of food insecurity/ poverty and can’t afford the cheapest food and over time you begin to look starved. Contrary to popular public opinion, looking overweight can be a sign of food insecurity.
