Myths About Food and Low Income
This document for community and health workers, and local and national policy makers, challenges the myths and assumptions about people's ability to eat healthily on a low income. Myths include, 'They don't know how to shop or cook properly' and 'They spend too much on take-away food'.
This document for community and health workers, and local and national policy makers, challenges the myths and assumptions about people’s ability to eat healthily on a low income. Myths include, “They don’t know how to shop or cook properly” and “They spend too much on take-away food”.
Food Access Network: The Food Access Network (FAN-UK) was formerly the Food Poverty project, and is now superseded by the Local Action on Food Network. These archive pages give background information on the activities of FAN-UK, which worked to tackle diet-related ill health amongst the UK's most disadvantaged communities.
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