America’s Cheapest Health Foods
December 5, 2009 – 1:18 pmBy David Zinczenko, with Matt Goulding - Posted on Tue, Dec 01, 2009, 12:10 pm PST
Eating well has never been so expensive. Over the past two years, the cost of vegetables, meat, fruit, and other high-nutrition, low-calorie foods has increased by an average of 19.5 percent. But junk foods? Their prices have actually decreased slightly, by 1.8 percent. Our economic outlook isn’t only making it harder to make ends meet—it’s making it harder to make the two ends of our belts meet. In fact, researchers recently estimated the cost of a diet based on high-calorie foods versus one based on healthy, low-calorie foods. The high-calorie diet…. (more)
