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Closing the Veg Gap

Professor Sir Michael Marmot UCL Institute of Health Equity Veg Summit - 24 Nov 2017

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Measuring Food Insecurity: UK

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Source: Food Foundation (2016) http://foodfoundation.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/MeasuringHouseholdFoodInsecurity.pdf

Food and health inequalities

• “Five per cent of people on low incomes report skipping meals for a whole day.
• Low income and area deprivations are also barriers to purchasing fresh or

unfamiliar foods.

• Lower income households are the hardest hit by food price fluctuations.”

Source: Fair Society, Healthy Lives, (2010) p81

Lifestyles and eating: England

• Only 18% of people have one or more meals a day at their table;
• Nearly two thirds of people eat at their table less than once a week;
• 30% of households use their table for meals barely a few times a year;
• 3% have no table.

Income group and % deviation from recommended fruit and veg Intake

5 (2). NDNS – Maguire and Monsivais, Br j Nutr 2015

6 (3) NDNS Survey Waves 1-4 (2008/9 to 2011/12)

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5 10 15 20 Veg (g/d) - excl potatoes

% Deviation from Mean

Adult Veg Intake by Income Quintile (NDNS Waves 1-4)

Quintile 1 Quintile 2 Quintile 3 Quintile 4 Quintile 5

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Income group and % deviation from average veg Intake in adults

Children achieving a good level of development at age five, local authorities 2011: England

40 45 50 55 60 65 70 75 80 30 60 90 120 150 Good level

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at age 5 % Local authority rank - based on Index of Multiple Deprivation

Source: LHO (2012)

Income group and % deviation from average veg Intake in children

8 (4). NDS Waves; and Office for National Statistics (2014) Office for National Statistics Living Costs and Food Survey. Available at: www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/personalandhouseholdfinances/incomeandwealth/compendium/familyspending/2014-12-02/chapter1overview (Accessed: 17 January 2017)

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5 10 15 20 Quintile 1 Quintile 2 Quintile 3 Quintile 4 Quintile 5 Quintile 1 Quintile 2 Quintile 3 Quintile 4 Quintile 5 Quintile 1 Quintile 2 Quintile 3 Quintile 4 Quintile 5 1.5-3 years 4-10 years 11-18 years

% deviation from mean

Child Veg Intake by Income Quintile

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Income group and fruit intake: a country comparison - Scotland Vs Portugal

0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 Lower SES Middle SES Upper SES Social Economic Status (SES)

Axis Title Axis Title

Fruit Consumption (>2/day)

Scotland Portugal

Drivers of Inequitable Health Outcomes

A. Give every child the best start in life B. Enable all children, young people and adults to maximise their capabilities and have control over their lives. C. Create fair employment and good work for all D. Ensure a healthy standard of living for all E. Create and develop healthy and sustainable places and communities F. Strengthen the role and impact of ill-health prevention

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Source: Fair Society, Healthy Lives, (2010)

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