Food Price Crisis Can Lead To Deteriorating Nutrition

Good news.

As fuel prices soar, food prices are beginning to creep up to crisis levels most recently seen in 2007...

Using data from nationally representative household budget surveys, Iannotti and colleagues found that during a food price crisis:

-- Calorie intake was reduced by an average eight percent from precrisis levels...

"We are particularly concerned for families with young children," Iannotti says.

"When you have a reduction in calories and critical nutrients for kids under two, there are long term consequences such as stunted growth, cognitive deficits, lower educational attainment and reduced future productivity. "

Lower caloric intake is good.

If, and this is a huge if (as in almost impossible), a "critical nutrient" is missing, use a mineral-vitamin pill/supplement.