Food Choice, Health, and Inequality

Harvard FAS

Food and diet-related health have become a pressing topic in research, policy and public discourse. This concern stems in part from the fact that disadvantaged groups tend to have poorer diets than their more advantaged peers. In order to understand socioeconomic and racial disparities in diet quality, we will examine how people’s food choice is related to their material resources, to their social circumstances, and to the meaning that they attach to—and derive from—food.…