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What鈥檚 the problem with only eating chips?

What we don鈥檛 know about the boy who only ate Pringles, chips and bread.

Amid the Brexit chaos, there鈥檚 another story that went viral this week. A teenage boy in Bristol has lost his eyesight because of his poor diet. Since leaving primary school, he had been eating only French fries, Pringles and white bread, as well as an occasional slice of ham or a sausage. The story provoked strong opinions about what we should and shouldnt be eating.

We speak to author and journalist Eve Simmons about our complicated national relationship with 鈥榞ood鈥� and 鈥榖ad鈥� food. Robbie Davison, who runs a social enterprise that provides hot meals for people in poverty, explains what well-meaning people get wrong about poverty and bad diets.

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Producers: Lucy Hancock, Seren Jones
Mixed by Nico Raufast
Editor: John Shields

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