Key legal question
Whether the appellant was entitled to reimbursement of diet costs as EL sickness expenses.
Extracted holding
Yes. A medically necessary, low-pollutant diet qualified as reimbursable diet costs, and the appellant proved annual additional costs warranting the statutory lump sum.
Extracted reasoning
Bio-food can count as diet costs if medically required to reduce harmful substances. The evidence showed that the appellant's chemical sensitivities made such a diet objectively necessary, and the claimed extra costs were sufficiently substantiated.