poor diet and drinking

• Healthy individuals


  Make better choices so are healthier
• If less healthy people changed their habits


  They would become healthier
• Determining our health


  What we eat and drink
• Someone eats unhealthy food and drinks too much


  They are probably going to be less healthy
• Obesity rates


  • In 2021 Scotland, 38% of adults in the most deprived quintile were obese, compared to 20% in the least deprived
• Rates of deaths due to drug misuse


  • X5 higher in the most deprived areas
• Rates of deaths due to alcohol


  • X4 higher in the most deprived areas
• Collectivists' argument


  Healthier food is often more expensive, and due to the closure of shops in deprived areas and the development of out-of-town supermarkets, it is often quite challenging for people living in poverty to get access, so they have no choice but to make poorer choices
• According to alcohol change UK, people on low incomes drink less, on average, than people on higher incomes
• Affordability


  A key driver of alcohol consumption