Health Unit sees Cost of Healthy Eating report

The cost to have a healthy balanced diet continues to rise and many people in Ontario are not being fed sufficiently.

Erin Reyce is a Public Health Dietitian and she presented some of these findings to the Local Health Unit Board last night (Wednesday).

She says the biggest change has to be boosting the income of lower wage earners.

Reyce says this isn’t just having an effect on people who are out of work.

Reyce says through her research they found a lot of misconceptions about low income families and how they get by every day.

Reyce asked the Board to endorse the “Public Health Support for a Basic Income Guarantee” resolution.

She says there needs to be a serious discussion about the money people are given from social assistance and how there isn’t nearly enough to spend on the necessities of life.

The Board accepted the resolution.