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Cheaper healthy food could save millions
Published Wed, Mar 2, 2016 · 09:50 PM
Washington
SCIENTISTS have been telling Americans about the benefits of healthy eating for decades, and yet more Americans are obese than ever - more than a third of the country.
Now, researchers at Harvard and Tufts Universities have laid out concrete steps officials can take by linking food prices to health effects.
Reducing prices of fruit and vegetables while raising prices for sodas and…
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