The reality is that inflation is a wave that is going around the world and that hits harder and harder on the shores of the family basket. According to the National Institute of Statistics, the CPI in Chile rose 1.2% in Augusta variation that was above market expectations and that took inflation in 12 months to 14.1%, its highest level since September 1992.
It is so basic products are becoming more expensive and more unaffordable for families, reason why shopping lists are rethought and, without realizing it, before taking the bag to go out to do the market, that space reserved for eggs, meat, vegetables and cereals has been lost by families with sausages, sausages, sugared flakes and others.
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In the words of Xenia Sinfreuresearcher and professor at the Universitat Carlemany, an international online university, «Due to inflation, people lose their purchasing power and fresh and healthy products, which are the first to rise in price, well, They are replaced by cheaper products but of lower nutritional quality, precooked meals, high in sugars, salts, sodium, trans fats and all the best friends of blood pressure, diabetes and all kinds of cardiovascular diseases.
And it is that, without being very obvious, health professionals see with terror how inflation threatens to destroy their efforts to achieve the different goals of the Sustainable Development Goal -ODS- 3 Health and Well-being, especially the goals associated with the mortality in the population.
The Pan American Health Organization -PAHO- states that, in the region of the Americas, approximately 2 million people die from cardiovascular diseases. According to OECD data 74% of the adult population in Chile suffers from overweight and obesity and the country remains at the forefront in Latin America.
The director of the Center for Prevention Research at the Institute for Health Research and Policy at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) Lisa Powellis one of the most influential researchers in the world on economics and health issues and in her research she has shown how food prices are directly related to obesity.
For these reasons, the researcher from the Universitat Carlemany recommends paying attention to that shopping list and, as far as possible, preferring to make the financial effort to continue purchasing healthy and fresh products, and recommends saving in other aspects of life.
“The truth is that everything we invest in health right now will see its repercussions in 10 years, that is, if I don’t take care of myself now, I don’t eat well, I don’t have a healthy diet, maybe now I won’t notice these effects, but in 10 years yes, and at that point it is already very difficult to go back. So make a little investment to be able to have a quality of life in the long term,» said the nutritionist.