I **** to say this, but I found none surprising. I know I am spending more on health foods, but really, I am spending less.
In getting junk foods, one is buying a lot of empty nutrients. Of course, our body needs certain nutrients, and tries to tell us in various ways (ie, cravings). For instance, our body might be lacking in potassium. If our main dietary intake of potassium is through potato chips, we begin a potato chip craving. However, in reality, most bagged potato chips contain more crap than actual potato, so we are actually getting little of the potassium that we need...so we eat more chips, instead filling ourselves up with more fat than the nutrients our body truly needs. And, instead of spending a couple of bucks on a healthy, pure, home grown potato, we find ourselves spending a lot more on bags of chips - and paying for it with our health, as well.
So, it might SEEM like eating healthy is more expensive, but in the long run, it is a lot less expensive. I find myself personally spending less as I eat more organic and local, because these healthy foods are more adequately filling my dietary needs with much greater efficiency than fast foods and junk foods.
Number three gets me, as does the related number 5. Fruits, veggies and meats do have fewer nutrients today...if the consumer is not careful. Know where your fruits, veggies and meats come from. Know how they are grown, know how they are cared for. chickens and cows which are raised free to roam, rather than in what is basically a agricultural prison, are apt to have a lot more nutrients. Plus, you can almost literally taste the happiness in a chicken raised free range, over a caged.
