Only the Rich Eat Healthy?

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There’s a constant message in society today to eat healthy.  You get the message everywhere, it seems, from slams of McDonald’s to suggested ways of incorporating healthy eating into your diet.

But is there a socioeconomic disconnect between the possibility of eating “good foods” as recommended by new nutritional guidelines and the ability to do so?

Perhaps.

From Fox News:

An update of what used to be known as a food pyramid in 2010 had called on Americans to eat more foods containing potassium, dietary fiber, vitamin D and calcium. But if they did that, the journal Health Affairs said, they would add hundreds more dollars to their annual grocery …

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Chocolate Milk Under Fire?

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There’s a pretty common knowledge base in terms of drinking milk (or taking in calcium in some other way, shape, or form) leading to stronger, healthier bones.  After all, who wants to develop osteoporosis, to have an increased risk of breaking a hip or something in a fall, of being deficient in vitamins or minerals that are fairly easy to get, nutritionally speaking?

And, like most healthy dietary habits, incorporating necessary nutrients into what you eat is easiest done when started at a young age.

After all, isn’t that why the standard beverage …

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