Who cares about normal women’s work-life balance? | Barbara Ellen | Comment is free | The Observer

Who cares about normal women’s work-life balance? | Barbara Ellen | Comment is free | The Observer: "A study from the Centre for Diet and Activity Researches (Cedar) at the University of Cambridge, looking at the years 2002 -2012, says that healthy foods now cost three times more than unhealthy alternatives, and that more could be done about this disparity when making health policy decisions.

This corroborates what is already widely known – that, say, fast food burgers are often cheaper to buy than ingredients for home cooked meals. While there is growing interest in low-cost healthy recipes, factor in time and exhaustion for many homemakers, and the quick, cheap option is all too easy to understand.

Nor does it end there. Poor diet is just as swiftly becoming a key social signifier in terms of dumping people on the rungs below “normal” society. In the same way that free school meals used to be, but now involving the whole family group.

Meanwhile, the University of Cardiff angered students by placing an “anti-homeless cage” outside one of its campus buildings, where homeless people had taken to sleeping near warm air vents. The university spoke of potential safety issues regarding gases for anyone blocking the grilles.

However, many students were outraged by the cage, which works in the same manner as studs or spikes, making it impossible for homeless people to bed down for the night – the same kind of thing that happened outside the Regent Street branch of Tesco earlier this year."



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