Government should subsidise healthy food to help millions of people lose weight - report - Sky News

It estimated that, before lockdown, 20 million people could not afford healthy food and 19 million people struggle to find healthy food in stores near their homes.

A government spokesperson said: "We recently launched a world-leading obesity strategy to make the healthy choice the easy choice for families and help reduce obesity rates.

Zoe McIntyre, project manager for the Food Foundation's Right2Food campaign, said: "We've seen some really important government announcements recently, for example a new obesity strategy in July around making healthy food more affordable, which is a great start

"But for some low-income families, healthy food still remains unaffordable