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What price a healthy diet?
Author(s) -
GROOM HILARY
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
nutrition bulletin
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.933
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1467-3010
pISSN - 1471-9827
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-3010.1993.tb00185.x
Subject(s) - environmental health , consumption (sociology) , value (mathematics) , value for money , population , constraint (computer aided design) , business , medicine , public economics , economics , engineering , computer science , mechanical engineering , social science , machine learning , sociology
Summary The majority of attempts to determine the cost of a healthy diet have indicated that eating ‘healthily’ does not need to be more expensive. Adapting the UK diet to nutritional recommendations does however require significant changes to present consumption patterns and even greater changes are required if cost is an additional constraint. The poorest people in the population have the greatest difficulty in meeting dietary guidelines. Not only would they probably have to increase their proportional expenditure on food, but a lack of resources, limited access to value‐for‐money food and insufficient nutritional knowledge will compound their problems. This issue presents a real challenge to nutritionists and the food industry.