INCREASE IN FOOD PRICES: IMPLICATIONS FOR HEALTHY FAMILY LIVING IN NIGERIA
Keywords:
Food Price Increase, healthy living, Families, Nigeria.Abstract
In the past few years families have been subjected to both spikes and volatile situation of increase in prices of food, the implication of which families’ welfare have been much debated in recent years. For most families, increase in food prices have a significant drain and impacts their healthy eating lifestyle. It is therefore important to examine the implications of increase in food prices on healthy family living .The concept of healthy family living, increase in food prices, causes of increase in food prices, implications of increase in prices of food on healthy family living were discussed. It was concluded that insurgencies bedeviling the country, especially in the Northern part and pockets of dissentions in some states where most of the essential food items for the nation come from, has led to low food supply and also contributed to the astronomical rise in food prices which has negatively affected healthy family living in Nigeria. It was therefore recommended that home gardening, bulk purchase, and use of foods in season should be encouraged.
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