Improved Access To Healthy Food Has Little Affect On Diet
An interesting editorital in the British Medical Journal has concluded that access to healthy food (i.e. retail outlets) doesn't necessarily lead to a better diet.
The BBC has surmised this:
Even when healthy foods are affordable and accessible people continue to eat unhealthily, experts have warned.
Also:
"If new retail provision is to have an impact on diet and health, we need a multidimensional approach that also tackles food awareness, affordability, and acceptability in addition to retail change."Changing access through improving retail provision alone may not have a substantial impact on diet and health.
Give us healthy food - and we still won't buy it? Is that what this is saying?
Written By J. Foster
Well lets be real if it wasn't available no one would use it.....its ridicolous that we don't push for more healthy markets..
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