There is a popular notion that it is cheaper to eat unhealthy foods than
healthy foods (fruits, vegetables and organic food), and that the
astounding difference in costs determine the diet habits of a lot of
people – especially of low-income families. According to Harvard School
of Public Health researchers, the healthiest diets cost about $1.50 more
per day than the least healthy diets.
However, healthy foods are often much less expensive than junk foods
when compared with health costs of eating an unhealthy diet. The price
difference is very small, the Harvard researchers found, in comparison
to the economic costs of diet-related chronic diseases, which would be
dramatically reduced by healthy diets.
Dr Michael Greger, founder of NutritionFacts.org and author of New York
Times Best Seller How Not to Die, insists that healthy foods cost less
than junk foods. While junk food may be four times cheaper than healthy
foods, he says, you get 20 times less nutrition. In the video below, Dr
Greger describes how — when measured on a cost per serving, cost per
weight, or cost per nutrition basis