Food Costs Soar But Healthy Eating Still Affordable

Healthy food is still affordable for the average family, despite the cost of food skyrocketing by 20 per cent since 2000, according to new research. The survey, in Nutrition & Dietetics published by Wiley-Blackwell, found rising food costs have been matched by increasing average incomes and welfare payments, making the affordability of healthy food about the same as it was in 2000.

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Filed under: Nutrition / Diet on February 26th, 2009