This Just In: Water is Wet

Via TNH at Making Light, groundbreaking reporting on class, poverty, and nutrition:

Research suggests that the poorer you are, the more likely you are to be obese. To further examine the economic and calorie choices consumers face at the grocery store, we decided to expand on Drewnowski's research and compare prices and calorie content of food based on typical serving sizes. We took 30 common supermarket items, from fresh fruits, vegetables, and meats to soft drinks and snacks, and compared their calories per serving, as well as their sodium and sugar per serving, with their price per serving. Our findings corroborate Drewnowski's: Processed convenience foods and snack foods generally cluster towards the low cost and high calorie, high sodium, and high sugar section of the graph, while more nutritious and lower calorie options, like fresh meat and vegetables, fall on the expensive end of the spectrum.

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