DIET QUALITY GAP GROWS

The diets of low-income Americans have worsened in the past decade, even as the diets of the wealthiest Americans have improved, according to a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association Internal Medicine. Overall diet quality in the United States remains poor, said the report’s lead author, who attributed the change to the higher cost of convenient and healthy meals, as well as limited access to quality supermarkets in some poorer neighborhoods. 

Source: National Geographic, 9/1/14, Diet Gap