Healthy eating costs an extra $1.50 per day: study

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Healthy eating costs an extra $1.50 per day: study

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/healthy-eating-costs-extra-1-50-per-day-220707301.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/h8Z0NkJymfDubAL_2o3dfQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-12-13T220707Z_1_CBRE9BC1PFY00_RTROPTP_2_USA.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Students eat a healthy lunch at Marston Middle School in San Diego" align="left" title="Students eat a healthy lunch at Marston Middle School in San Diego" border="0" /></a>By Shereen Jegtvig NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - That healthy foods cost more has become conventional wisdom, but a new study is the most thorough yet in calculating how much more: about a dollar and a half. &quot;Before now, we've seen studies looking at prices of one or a few foods or diets, in one city and from one store,&quot; said Mayuree Rao. &quot;And the results have been mixed, with some studies finding that the healthier options cost more and some studies finding they don't.&quot; Rao is a junior research fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health and a medical student at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.</p><br clear="all"/>

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