Poverty and healthy nutrition are an impossible equation – An ideal diet proved too expensive for one and a half billion people (yle)

YLE (Finland) published an article on The Eat-Lancet Commission on Food, Planet, Health and a follow-up study, Affordability of the EAT–Lancet reference diet: A global analysis that found the diet too expensive for as many as one and a half billion people, especially in Africa south of the Sahara and South Asia.  Senior Research Fellow Kalle Hirvonen, one of the coauthors of the Affordability study believes when the population becomes sufficiently wealthy, health awareness begins to appear on the plate and states could make a big difference in how healthy people are eating but it would require government support.