Healthy food getting more expensive: study
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NEW YORK  - The price of fruits and vegetables is climbing faster than inflation, while junk food is actually becoming cheaper, the findings of a new study suggest.
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Low-income families eat better when given vouchers to farmers' markets.
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Shoppers have backed traffic light coding for food so they can tell what is healthy and what is not, a study says.
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Frequent fast food eaters are more vulnerable to obesity and type 2 diabetes, a 15-year study shows. This study, which appeared in the Jan. 1 issue of the The Lancet, is the
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Rising food costs helped push prices up for a second straight month, more than offsetting a moderation in energy price increases as inflation showed signs of gaining steam.
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They show greatest increase in smoking, obesity and poor eating, study says    HealthDayNews -- Smoking, obesity and poor eating habits increased among young people in the United States in the 1990s, a trend that may lead to higher future rates of cancer, heart disease, diabetes and lung disease as that generation ages.    That warning comes from a study in the September/October issue of the American Journal of Health Promotion...
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John Vidal reports on why food prices are rising and the developing world is facing catastrophe
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More than a quarter of growth in health care spending over the past 15 years is due to obesity, and experts say prevention is key to control soaring costs.
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Prices of necessities are up sharply over the past year, meaning that those items consume more and more of the household budget, leaving less for other things.
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The company was hurt by rising costs for raw materials used in such products as its Glad plastic storage bags and Hidden Valley salad dressings.
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Taking advantage of the power of food to boost the effectiveness of drugs could sharply lower the cost of cancer treatments, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
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Imposing a tax on unhealthy foods could prevent more than 3,000 deaths a year in the UK, researchers said today.
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The rise in grocery costs is up more in the first six months of 2007 than in all of 2006.
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U.S. consumers spent an estimated $535 more on gasoline in the past year, but some consumer goods categories benefited as people shifted away from luxuries such as dining out and stayed home, according to a new study.
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The country dining chain is weathering cost increases better than its rivals.
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Thousands of deaths could be prevented each year if tax was added to a range of foods, a study says.
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Adults eat twice as many fruits and  vegetables as they did when they were children and take in less  fat and sugar, according to a new study.