LONDON - Britain's children are being poisoned by a "junk
culture" of processed food, computer games and over-competitive
education, an influential group of authors and experts warned on
Tuesday. In an open letter to the Daily Telegraph, 110 teachers,
psychologists and children's authors -- including the
internationally acclaimed Philip Pullman and Penelope Leach, a
leading childcare expert -- called on the government to act now
to prevent childhood being killed off altogether. Forced "to act
and dress like mini-adults", children are becoming increasingly
depressed and experiencing growing levels of behavioral and
developmental problems, they said. Schoolchildren in a
cafeteria. Britain's children are being poisoned by a "junk
culture" of processed food, computer games and over-competitive
education, an influential group of authors and experts warned on
Tuesday. REUTERS/File "Since children's brains are still
developing, they cannot adjust as full-grown adults can, to the
effects of ever more rapid technologi