Farmers market vouchers may improve access to healthy food

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Farmers market vouchers may improve access to healthy food

By Shereen Lehman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Vouchers for shopping at farmers markets can help families on food assistance programs consume more fruits and vegetables, new research shows. “This is a great program to bring to local farmers markets, provided they are located in areas with many consumers that receive federal nutrition benefits,” Carolyn Dimitri, who led the study, told Reuters Health in an email. Dimitri, a researcher with the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health at New York University, added that this is an easy intervention for markets that are already accepting SNAP (formerly known as food stamps) or other federal nutrition benefits, and the payoff is high for the consumers who participate.

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