Food Price and Diet and Health Outcomes

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Abstract
Although price policies, such as taxation, are beginning to be used as a means of addressing obesity, diabetes, and other nutrition-related health concerns, minimal research has been done to study how these price changes would have an impact on health outcomes. To date, this research has focused on broad ecological relationships,1-5 were conducted as small-scale experiments,6-9 or used cross-sectional data10,11 rather than examining the direct effects of price on food and beverage intake over a long period.