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Wed 10 Oct 2009Prices force lower-income families to eat less-healthy foods - FSAI survey
IT IS up to 10 times cheaper to eat a poor diet than a healthy one, new research from the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) has found.
The findings were released yesterday by the Healthy Food for All initiative which warned that proposed cuts in social welfare and child benefit would end up costing the Government more in the long term because of nutrition-related problems.
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