Anne Karpf doesn't actually remind us of this sort of thing but childhood (and adulthood) is not and never has been easy: the world is changing rapidly for all of us and this change is is both scary and exciting. More on this here.
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Interesting discussion. I think here in the US we are a lot farther down the road of the kind of childhood those Telegraph letter signers were decrying. I am clearly in the camp that food choices and education are worse these days than they were in my days (although my mother was a horrible cook, so my personal food choices were always bad - either crap fast food or crap home cooked food), but I think the computer and the accompanying technological advances are almost entirely beneficial.
I would also add that the food and education issues are also tied together with the lives that we as parents are living. When you are at work for such a large percentage of time, it is certainly harder to plan and prepare healthy meals, or spend the time to help your child better understand what they learned at school.