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Rising food prices aren't just shrinking Americans' wallets -- they might also be expanding their waistlines, prompting at least one nutrition scientist to sound the health alarm.
The price of milk, eggs, vegetables and just about every other grocery item seems to keep climbing. And for many families trying to eat healthily, that's a recipe for disaster.
Cindy Thompson, a single mom in Glen Burnie, Md., knows that struggle all too well.
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Last year, she was spending about $160 a week on groceries for herself and her two teenage boys. Now, that weekly register receipt is running more than $200. Thompson has made several changes to keep her family eating right -- that means not living off macaroni and cheese.
Her boys love to drink fruit juice, but instead of buying Capri Sun, she buys a concentrate and keeps it in a pitcher in the fridge -- with a little extra water mixed in.
"They still get fruit juices, but not in the cute little packages," Thompson said.
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