Diets: Which Is The Most Expensive?
Forbes have investigated the costs of 10 popular diets - Atkins, Jenny Craig, Ornish, NutriSystem, Slim Fast, South Beach, Subway, Sugar Busters!, Weight Watchers and Zone.
Jenny Craig is the most expensive (nearly double that of the South Beach Diet).
| Diet | Total Price of Weekly Food Menu* ** | Percent Over National Average |
| Jenny Craig | $137.65 | 152.8% |
| NutriSystem | 113.52 | 108.5 |
| Atkins | 100.52 | 84.6 |
| Weight Watchers | 96.64 | 77.5 |
| Zone | 92.84 | 70.5 |
| Ornish | 78.74 | 44.6 |
| South Beach | 78.61 | 44.4 |
| Slim Fast | 77.73 | 42.8 |
| Sugar Busters! | 69.62 | 27.9 |
| Subway | 68.60 | 26.0 |
| Median | 85.79 | 57.6 |
| Sources: Forbes, Fresh Direct, Amazon, Bureau of Labor Statistics * Adjusted for NYC prices ** Includes the cost of associated book, if applicable, and any membership fees associated with the diet, averaged over a six-month period. | ||
Calling Subway a diet is a bit of a stretch. Just because Jared Fogle lost a lot of weight (by walking at eating a couple of low-fat subs per day) hardly makes it a balanced diet. However, it's a bit cheaper than Weight Watchers!
Written By J. Foster
F off you are funny!! that gave me a chuckle, not so much what you said but the spirit of it.
anyway first of all I agree diets are stupid (any time you restrict caloires to lose weight is a diet regardless of the manner,)
if you barbecued all over fat peole there would hardly be any people left, except more fat people from eating all the fat people. hee hee.
if you want to stick to technical defintions a diet is bascially what you eat, everyone in that sense is on a diet, if you aren't your dying from starvation.
dieting has become synomounous with trying to eat less exercise more to lose weight. in this sense it is stupid, it is precisly why we have more fat people then ever. famines make people fat in the long run not eating too much, I have never met an overeater (with weight gain as a result) that wasn't also undereating at times (losing weight knowingly or not).
RR
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