Can food stamps help improve diets, fight obesity and save money?

Tuesday, June 3, 2014 - 19:50 in Health & Medicine

Prohibiting the use of federal food stamps to purchase sugar-sweetened beverages and subsidizing the purchase of fruits and vegetables with the coupons would improve nutrition, foster weight loss and drive down rates of Type 2 diabetes among the program's 47.6 million recipients, according to a...

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