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Why Is Healthy Food So Expensive?...Especially when the government is counting down the months until Birtain is as fat as the US

It doesn't make any sense that governments are always bringing out new health programs for schools, changing the health guidelines (apparently we're now meant to eat 7 portions of fruit and veg a day) and preaching about how we all need to do more exercise when actually this is all quite hard when healthy food costs an arm and a leg! It's ok for the portion of the population who have stable full-times jobs as they can afford organic, nutrient rich and unprocessed foods but even then that doesn't always work out as often their jobs are stressful enough that it resorts to binging on fast food diets. In reality, the other part of the population- those who are unemployed or don't have the qualifications to get a well paid job don't have the chance to eat healthily all time, especially when there are fatty and sugary foods for half the price. So here we are getting fatter and fatter. But hang on it doesn't look like we're completely doomed; there'...