Cheaper Healthy Food Would Save Millions of Lives

Researchers calculate how life-saving a few cents can be

It’s one thing to encourage people to eat more fruits and vegetables, but quite another to help them actually afford them. Study after study shows that fresh plant-based foods can lead to healthier hearts and fewer health problems, but for many, the produce aisles are economically out of reach.

In order to spur manufacturers and policy makers to make fruits and vegetables more affordable, researchers led by Dr. Thomas Gaziano at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School calculated exactly how much benefit reducing the cost of produce would have on heart disease rates. - Read More at the TIME

Cheaper Healthy Food Would Save Millions of Lives