Miller-McCune: Study suggests that a subsidy on healthy foods is unlikely to positively influence rates of obesity

Release Date: February 10, 2010 This content is archived.

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An article on Miller-McCune, a research news Web site, reports on research conducted by Leonard Epstein, professor of pediatrics and social and preventive medicine, that showed that a subsidy on healthy food did not influence study participants to buy more of it as much as raising the price of unhealthy foods reduced purchases of those products.

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