> First, it takes money. Healthier diets... generally cost more... They note that the unprocessed diet they fed participants cost 40% more than the ultra-processed diet.
And yet, a paragraph later:
> Lots of families in our study cooked almost every night, in part because it was the cheapest option
So wait, hold on, is cooking more expensive or not? What are they eating that's supposedly healthier but significantly more expensive?
> the labor of shopping (often at multiple stores)
What major grocery chain doesn't carry everything needed to make dinner?
> This means making healthy food more affordable, but it also means addressing the other challenges families face: for example, by guaranteeing workers a living wage and fair working conditions and by investing in families through universal free school lunch and subsidized child care, so that parents don't feel like they're doing it all on their own.
Wait, hold on, what? I thought we were talking about food cooking barriers? I can understand the connection to free school lunch (make sure kids get one solid meal in them a day, if you can call government supplied cafeteria materials food), but, what?
And yet, a paragraph later:
> Lots of families in our study cooked almost every night, in part because it was the cheapest option
So wait, hold on, is cooking more expensive or not? What are they eating that's supposedly healthier but significantly more expensive?
> the labor of shopping (often at multiple stores)
What major grocery chain doesn't carry everything needed to make dinner?
> This means making healthy food more affordable, but it also means addressing the other challenges families face: for example, by guaranteeing workers a living wage and fair working conditions and by investing in families through universal free school lunch and subsidized child care, so that parents don't feel like they're doing it all on their own.
Wait, hold on, what? I thought we were talking about food cooking barriers? I can understand the connection to free school lunch (make sure kids get one solid meal in them a day, if you can call government supplied cafeteria materials food), but, what?