... cost up to 50 per cent more than low‐cost, nutritionally poor alternatives” (Marsh, 2001). The Acheson Report (Acheson, 1998) linked income and health: people from a lower socio‐economic background tend to eat less fruit and vegetables and other food which is rich in dietary fibre, and eat too much...

... been given to dietary variety, which allows for the study of intake of foods. Older people have been identified as a group that consumes particularly monotonous and nutritionally inadequate diets (Drewnowski et al., 1997). Social isolation, low income, impaired health and low levels...