According to Statistics New Zealand the average household spending on fruit (first column) in 2003/04 was almost $10. Call it $9-50. Only 61 percent more than the Ministry of Health figure.
Of course the MOH has a vested interest in painting alarming pictures about poor nutrition and obesity. Keeps them in work.
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The point of the figures is to promote hysteria over obesity thereby softening up the public for more restrictions, regulations and taxes.
And so the remaining $100 of $142 is spent on?
Cos if its all vegetables (as opposed to "fruit") then it's not so bad is it?
One would have to comment on the fact that only 1/3 of the attributed household spending is accounted for...
But I would think we must be heavily skewing those figures with around $10-15 pw of an $80 budget going towards fruit...
I found another story today
http://www.times-age.co.nz/localnews/storydisplay.cfm?storyid=3706770&thesection=localnews&thesubsection=&thesecondsubsection=
I bet those that can't afford an apple a day can 'afford' cigarettes!
IN 2003/4 we werent even spending 90.00 a week at the supermarket.
Judging by the comments here and elsewhere, for those statistics to be true, there must be a lot of households that do not buy fruit.
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