Stacey Bender wrote in message
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=3854505

This was a very interesting program. I hadn't really thought about
the
link between money and diet before, but it makes sense.

If you earn less than 42K/year, which 50% of the US does, you have
$4/day for food.

Why would you need to limit your food budget to 3.5% of income?

How can you possibly eat health for that little? You can't. A head
of
lettuce is about $2. Fruit and veggies, even if available, are not
purchasable at that income.

Not where I shop. I can buy a weeks worth of fruits and vegetables for
less than $15. Lucky me.

So what are you left with? Fast food, where you can get enough
calories
for the money. Eating fast food on limited income is actually the
most
rational thing to do.

Perhaps for certain variations on the word rational.

Matthew