|
|
Article: Can Low-Income Americans Afford a Healthy Diet?
- Article from:
- Amber Waves
- Article date:
- November 1, 2008
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright Superintendent of Documents Nov 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
|
* Low-income households that receive maximum benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program usually have the purchasing power necessary to afford healthy diets; others may not.
* Relative to other households, low-income households must allocate a higher share of both their income and time budgets to food if they wish to consume palatable, nutritious meals.
* For many American households, achieving an affordable healthy diet will require reducing their expenditures on less nutritious foods and moving nutrient-dense foods, such as fruit and vegetables, to the center of their plates and budgets.
Low-income households tend to eat less nutritious diets than other households. On ...