Healthy food choices: Are they easy for your family to make?
- December 22, 2010 4:08 PM |
- By POV
By CBC News
The poor are forced to make unhealthy food choices because prices of certain staples have been rising faster than inflation, according to a new study.
The basics for a low-income household's dinner -- baked goods, dairy and meat -- have been outpacing the consumer price index, especially in the past few years, according to the Institute for Competitiveness and Prosperity, a Toronto-based group that receives Ontario government funding.
Fruit and vegetable prices, as well as fish, come in below inflation.
But corner stores often found in poorer areas don't tend to stock as many healthy choices as unhealthy ones, the report says.
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