Open AccessThe Relative Caloric Prices of Healthy and Unhealthy Foods Differ Systematically across Income Levels and Continents
Author(s) -
Derek Headey,
Harold Alderman
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of nutrition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.463
H-Index - 265
eISSN - 1541-6100
pISSN - 0022-3166
DOI - 10.1093/jn/nxz158
Subject(s) - overweight , food prices , caloric theory , food group , environmental health , obesity , malnutrition , medicine , nutrition transition , consumption (sociology) , added sugar , demography , food science , food security , geography , biology , agriculture , endocrinology , archaeology , pathology , sociology , social science
Relative prices of healthy/unhealthy foods have been implicated in the obesity epidemic, but never extensively quantified across countries or empirically linked to undernutrition.
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