Healthy Eating: What is the role of the economic situation?

Bioactive Foods in Promoting Health

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 99-110

  Lallukka, Tea ^a   Laaksonen, Mikko ^a   Rahkonen, Ossi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Access; Adults; Affordability; Economic difficulties; Economic situation; Food cost; Healthy eating; Income; Poverty; Western populations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857212798     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-374628-3.00007-4     Document Type: Chapter

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