Food Prices, Nutrients and the Least-Cost Diet
Food Prices, Nutrients and the Least-Cost Diet This exercise is intended to give you a sense of the magnitudes and trade-offs involved in the nutritional aspects of food consumption choices. You will use real data from authoritative sources. Write a 2-3 page (double-spaced, standard margins, 11 or 12 point) response to this exercise. As you work through the exercise, pace yourself and don’t take too long on any one question. Please put your student ID on the assignment so that the assignment can be graded blindly. For this assignment your numerical results are best presented in tables rather than charts. The data should be formatted carefully so as to present data clearly – use the tables you see in your readings as exemplars. Place your text below or above the tables, but always make sure to label the tables and refer to them directly in your text (e.g. as “Table 1” not “the table”.) Write as thoughtfully as possible in concise but complete sentences. If a sentence contains mo...