Diet Costs
All entries tagged with Diet CostsPrice of Food: 2007 vs 2008
Here are a selection of various food price increases over the past year from the Cattle Network.
Eggs +28%, milk +15%, Cheese +11%. A handful of items have dropped: carrots, cucumbers, oranges, tangerines, and pears.
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Costs of Diets Compared
Most diet books contain a large selection of meal plans and recipes. Often, these recipes contain exotic ingredients and expensive foods.
Forbes have compared the costs of a number of popular diets based on the cost of each food listed in the meal plans.
Here is a summary of the findings:
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Does Poor Income = Poor Diet?

The British Food Standards Agency have just released their findings from a large survey of low-income households. They conclude:
For many foods, the types and quantities eaten by people on low income appeared similar to those of the general population.The findings were unexpected as many believed a lack of cooking skills and access to good food prevented poorer households from eating healthy.
Not so.
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The Cost of Losing 30 Pounds
Business site Bankrate compares the cost of losing 30 lbs (13.5 kg) using 5 major weight loss programs.
What is the real cost of using NutriSystem, Weight Watchers, LA Weight Loss, The Zone Diet or Jenny Craig?
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Is Healthy Food Too Expensive?

New research has highlighted three barriers to eating healthily; income, education level, and perceived price of healthy food.
Higher socioeconomic groups ate less fat, saturated fat and cholesterol and ate more fiber, fruits and vegetables, and had more calcium in their diet. (source)» Continue...
Diet Costs Compared
Forbes has compared the cost of a number of popular diets. Weekly sample menus were gathered for each of the 10 diets, and food prices were obtained from Fresh Direct (see methodology).
The median weekly cost came to $85.79 per week. Apparently the average American spends $54.44 on food.
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Food: Are We Paying Too Much?
When you move from traditional (i.e. carb-heavy, processed, fast, or fatty) foods to more healthier ones, you notice a change in food costs. Fruit and vegetables cost more than donuts. A McDonald's salad costs more than an entire Big Mac combo.
These costs can make us frustrated - "Why does it cost so much for good food?". Perhaps it's not so much that healthy food is expensive, but that many processed foods are very cheap.
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By now, we all know that for our health, we should try to eat a diet rich in fresh fruits and vegetables. And that it's best to avoid lots of processed convenience foods.