The Guardian view on unhealthy Britain: from housing to junk food, there are solutions | Editorial

People are living with sickness or disability younger than a decade ago. That should shock the country and prompt actionThe two-year decline in healthy life expectancy in Britain, set out in new analysis from the Health Foundation thinktank, is devastating. In a wealthy country like the UK, at a time of rapid advances in the treatment of illnesses including obesity and cancer, people should not be living with sickness or disability earlier than they were a decade ago.The report draws on a survey...