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A British five-year-old is now shorter than a five-year-old in North Korea. In 1985 British five-year-olds ranked 69th in the world for height. By 2019 the girls had fallen to 96th and the boys to 102nd. A British boy of five is shorter than one in North Korea, in Haiti and in Libya. A Dutch boy of five stands 7cm taller than him. A Bulgarian boy stands 8cm taller. The experts blamed austerity. Bulgaria has a fraction of Britain's money. It also has its name on the bacteria in your yoghurt, and its children grow up on yoghurt and white cheese. Dutch children grow up on milk with lunch and cheese on their bread. British children get the Eatwell plate. A third of it starch, cereal at breakfast, semi-skimmed from the age of two, red meat cut back, and a fruit pouch for being good. British boys of five have grown about a centimetre since 1985. Thirty years of telling children to eat more starch and less fat, and the rest of the world walked straight past them.