Health

The widening gap between the cost of healthy and unhealthy foods in poor countries is driving obesity rates in both urban and rural communities globally, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) says. Ccoupled with the unavailability of a variety of healthy foods, IFAD research says poor populations are increasingly left predisposed to the lifestyle disease. According to one of the studies reviewed (Headey 2019), IFAD notes that is 11.66 times more expensive to obtain a calorie from eggs in poor countries than it is to obtain a calorie from starchy staples, while in those same countries it is only 2.92 times more expensive to…