Researchers found that price subsidies on healthy foods like vegetables, fruits, whole grains, nuts, seeds and taxes on unhealthy ones like red meats and sugary drinks could help lower the number of annual deaths from diabetes, heart disease and stroke. A 10% change in price showed to prevent 23,000 deaths while a 30% change could save as many as 63,000 lives.
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