The Healthiest Cheap Food in America
| from: Eat This, not That! Men's Health Eating well has never been so expensive. Luckily, we've assessed the best picks and prices. Consider this your guide to the healthiest cheap food in America. | |
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 you
could eat for $3.52 a day. The low-cal diet? A whopping $36.32 per diem.
That sounds pretty bad—unless you factor in the long-term costs of
bad eating habits. Overweight people are 25 percent more likely to be
hospitalized for heart disease than slim people. Their hospital stays
are 16 percent longer. Their risk of high blood pressure is 44 percent
higher; the risk of developing kidney cancer is 42 percent higher; the
risk of high cholesterol, 33 percent higher. And those numbers only get
worse if you’re obese.
In the end, your best bet is to eat the healthiest, most nutrition-packed food your money can buy. Fortunately, Eat This, Not That! Supermarket Survival Guide
has come up with a list of smart, healthy swaps that you can buy for
less than their equally healthy, more expensive equivalents. So instead
of saving money buying junk food, you can save money buying healthy
food. Now that’s a deal.
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