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\u201cShoppers are feeling less control of their spending on food and more concerned about food prices than in February 2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

Researchers with The Food Industry Association<\/a> discussed their latest research into U.S. consumers\u2019 worries about food prices\u2019 impacts on family meals this week, and their findings comport with what I see happening in peoples\u2019 self-care choices at-home directly impacting nutrition as well as adjacent areas of retail health and home health life-flows.<\/p>\n

This data point meshes with trends in geopolitics, home economics, and consumers\u2019 growing demand for self-care outside of traditional \u201cfront doors\u201d compelling me to call-out the health risks accompanying the high and higher costs of food.<\/p>\n

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Start with geopolitics, which this week prompt me to focus on President Trump\u2019s latest call for tariffs on Canada. Follow this announcement the IFPA immediately warned its stakeholders<\/a> \u2014 the largest international association serving the entire fresh produce and floral supply chain \u2014 that, \u201cThe implementation of new tariffs on Canadian goods adds to the uncertainty facing the agriculture industry operating across the highly integrated North American market. Last year, Canada accounted for?48 percent of U.S. fresh produce exports, over $3.5 billion in produce sales. In total, the United States and Canada share nearly $6.5 billion in annual fresh produce trade. Canada is also a major supplier of cut florals and floral inputs, as well as an important source of critical inputs that U.S. fruit and vegetable growers rely on.\u00a0<\/strong>A stable, predictable trade relationship with Canada is essential to the growers, businesses, and consumers who depend on a strong North American fresh produce supply chain.\u201d<\/p>\n

With consumers\u2019 growing taste for food-as-medicine and mindful food choices for medical goals<\/a>, a research paper in BMC Public Health<\/em><\/a> struck me this week bolstering my thinking of food as a social determinant of health (or driver of health). Titled, \u201cBeyond proximity: how food quality in dollar and grocery stores influences health,\u201d the researchers found that folks who buy food from dollar stores were at greater risk of poorer health outcomes.<\/p>\n

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In UC Riverside\u2019s coverage on the university researchers\u2019 study, Jules Bernstein wrote<\/a>, \u201cWhile consumers may save a few bucks on groceries at dollar stores, they end up paying a higher price with their health. New UC Riverside research shows a link between dollar store food quality and higher rates of obesity, high blood pressure, cholesterol, and type 2 diabetes.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The graphic summarizes the study results. Ryan Bruellman, UCR genetics, genomics, and bioinformatics doctoral candidate and the study\u2019s first author, explained his motivation to do this study: \u201c\u201cI want to raise awareness that higher grocery costs are pushing people to buy highly processed, lower quality food at dollar stores, and it is negatively impacting their health in a similar way to fast food.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ryan and his colleagues used data from the Centers for Disease Control\u2019s 500 Cities Project which has gathered data across U.S. communities. They included a cohort of dollar stores including the 99 Cent Store, Dollar General, Dollar Tree, and Family Dollar which together represent about 34,000 storefronts.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, Ryan noted that, \u201cAcross the U.S. there are more dollar stores than traditional grocery stores.\u201d<\/p>\n

While this hypothesis might be intuitive to a lot of people, having this hard data is important and should inform public policy from the Federal level to local public school departments.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s the USDA\u2019s latest data on rising food prices by product category at the grocery store and away from home in restaurants.<\/p>\n

The price of food increased by 3 percentage points from June 2025 to June 2026, with higher inflation for beef and veal (11.8%), fresh fish and seafood (6.3%), and certain kinds of fresh produce (for example, fresh vegetables rising at nearly 10%). \"\"<\/p>\n

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Now to the FMI research I cited introducing this post: consider how U.S. adults have reacted to the rising cost of food and their control over expenditures.<\/p>\n

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FMI\u2019s webinar on Consumer Perspectives on Family Meals<\/a>, precedes FMI\u2019s Family Meals mission convening Family Meals Month in September.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Note the mission spelled out: that \u201cFamily meals are the foundation for a healthy nation\u2026The nourishment we get at family meals helps us to be physically and emotionally fit.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bottom line? \u201cStay strong with family meals!\u201d FMI enthuses on the poster asking us to Join the Movement.<\/p>\n

[FYI, I grew up this way as busy as a family we were in my Wonder Bread years, and this stuck with me in our raising our own daughter decades later.]<\/p>\n

Importantly, FMI\u2019s data and recorded personal responses recorded for their session provides life human commentary on this topic: that families seek togetherness over the meal table but struggle with the cost of food, the cost of transportation, and the cost of time to\/from workplaces.\u00a0\"\"<\/p>\n

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Health Populi\u2019s Hot Points:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em> PwC\u2019s Voice of the Consumer study this year<\/a> (subtitled \u201cthe rise of everyday health\u201d) discussed the food and beverage industry\u2019s role in serving up healthy choices for mainstream people who are dealing with the high costs of health care and the high costs of healthy food. In this diagram from the PwC report, we can learn about opportunities for the Food+Bev industry, illustrating areas consumers demand products and services from these stakeholders \u2014 including meal and nutrition support, help with sleep and stress relief, and products that can help us feel and look better, from head to toe and from internal cells to external skin.<\/p>\n

Keep keeping in mind FMI\u2019s finding that people are seeking more control in the midst of rising costs: this ethos impacts consumers across all age groups (in different ways), income and education levels, across political party ID, and race and ethnicity identities. When we in the health\/care ecosystem talk about and venture to \u201cmeet people where they are,\u201d this phenomenon of self-control and agency vis-a-vis rising costs of living is now part of where people are, every single day.<\/p>\n

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