Healthy Eating and the Cost

By: Alika Hidayat, Alfredo Rivera, Monay Varin, Keith

George

Whats the Issue Here?

#1: Eating healthy

means spending
more money.
It actually costs around $550
a year more - LA Times

What is a healthy diet?

whole fruits
Dark green and red vegetables
low fat or fat free dairy
variety of protein sources
whole grains
oils (small amount,
but necessary)

Whats Causing This?

Unhealthy diets cost less because food policies have focused on the production of
inexpensive, high volume commodities which lead to a complex work of farming,
storage, transportation, processing, manufacturing, and marketing capabilities that
favor sales of highly processed food products for maximal industry profit

Impacts to Global Communities

Cant afford food

No healthy diet
Undernourishment
increase
Mortality

Impacts to Personal Health

Go for fast food

Body doesnt get
Obesity
Type 2 diabetes
Heart disease

Current Solutions
Suprise! No government agencies are working to:
Balance the cost between healthy/unhealthy
Lower the cost of whole foods

But we could try overtaxing the cheaper foods.

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