As part of the recent blog action for World Food Day, the team from Boston Medical Centre have published some research from their own backyard. They have kindly given us permission to re-publish this material. The information below is from the C-SNAP Children’s Sentinel Nutrition Assessment Program website, http://www.c-snap.org/page.php?id=98.

World Food Day
The Real Cost of a Healthy Diet Research Team
October 16, 2007
October 16 is World Food Day, a global event aimed at increasing awareness and advocacy around the multifaceted problem of hunger worldwide. This year, the Real Cost of a Healthy Diet research team looks at hunger in the United States, focusing specifically on the Food Stamp Program and how inadequate benefits and high costs are compromising child health and development.
healthy_diet_wfd_10_16_07.pdf
Factsheet from the Real Cost of a Healthy Diet.