A lot of people assume the poor eat cheap food because it tastes good, but they would make better choices if they could afford to, said Hilary Seligman, assistant professor of medicine at the University of California, San Franciscowho and not involved in the study.
"Almost 15 percent of households in America say they don't have enough money to eat the way they want to eat," Seligman said. Recent estimates show 49 million Americans make food decisions based on cost, she added.---
(x) Lead researcher: Pablo Monsivais, an assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology and the School of Public Health at the University of Washington.)
