High cost of healthy food to blame for malnutrition (Medium) 

Medium (USA) published an article from “The Good Men Project” about the Eat-Lancet diet. The article referenced the study Affordability of the EAT–Lancet reference diet: A global analysis by Senior Research Fellows Kalle Hirvonen and Derek Headey, with Yan Bai and William Masters that found variations in food prices around the world may help explain regional differences in malnutrition and obesity, with poorer populations missing out on healthy foods. The study found that the affordability of healthy and unhealthy foods was “strongly associated” with nutrition outcomes, including child stunting. Derek Headey stated, “Most nutritious foods are expensive in low-income countries. Eggs and fresh milk, for example, are often ten times as expensive as starchy staples in caloric terms.”