http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/05/a-high-price-for-healthy-food/ ------It's not a myth.

When WTO fined EU for refusing US hormone-ridden meat, they rejected EU objections for two reasons, the main one was that filthy fat disgusting bad faith fellow countryman of mine Prodi, back then EU Council President, not appealing to a WTO rule that would have allowed us to refuse it without retaliation, the other was that WTO commissioned a research that acquitted hormones. But half of the experts that made that research were tied to hormone producers. Previous and successive researches on hormone-ridden meat showed that little kids consuming it could even grow tits and have underdevelopment of male sexual characteristics and little girls reach precocious puberty. And I trust those independent researches a lot more, one of them was done by my town's children hospital that back then was one of the best in the world and many others were done again in many different places after more kids had sexual development disorders.

The most appropriate way to describe the claim that eating healthy is expensive is that it is a half-truth. In absolute terms, it is difficult to create a healthy meal for a similar cost to the unhealthy low cost high calorie foods; but what people assume this to mean is not true at all.

For less than the cost of feeding myself with a convenient take out or frozen meal I can feed a family of four a healthy meal; and I can guarantee that I can give people a healthy nutritionally balanced diet on (practically) any budget in western developed nations.

Basically, just because a daily intake of calories in raw sugar or butter costs $0.50 doesn't mean that eating a healthy balanced diet is expensive

I can make a meal for four with less than £10 (example: stir fry mix veg pack, noodles or rice, sauce and tofu). Mc Donalds costs more than that (about £4.50 per person).

People can't be bothered to cook, have huge portions, they don't move enough (I'm guilty of this though, I admit) and they are stubborn about food. "It doesn't taste as good... whine whine whine" It makes me think of children that only want candy! The reason junk food are so "tasty" is because it's highly processed, filled with empty calories, fat, sugar and salt. It's a recepie for not only weight gain but addiction.

Well after eating healthy for a while, you realise how much better real food is and how disgusting the junk is.

But one note, I personally would never insult or look down on someone who's fat. I won't lie, I don't find it attractive and I wouldn't ever want to be like that but it's not a reason to be mean. All you can do is encourage them to adopt a healthier lifestyle and support them. It is not insulting to do so. I share my cooking tips with people and tell them to eat small amounts of food throughout the day instead of huge meals. Show them you care about them and that's why they should lose weight, to be around the people they love for longer.

I think the reason why people are so angry about it is that it's not a hard issue to solve. The solutions are normal sized healthy food and a 30 min - 1 hour walk everyday.

Most people, specially the young ones already working, don't have enough time for supermarkets.

It's all about McDonald's or BK for lunch and a Pizza or Cup Noodles for dinner. At least in the southern states like Florida or Lousiana which I know the best. 

...Did you read the article? It was a horribly-written article. They analyzed cost per calorie of junk food vs. healthy food. Which one do you think would come out as being cheaper per calorie?

The real discussion on cost of healthy vs. junk food would be to make about 2-3 dozen meals using healthy means, and unhealthy means. I think you'd find that the cost is very similar. Of course, the healthy meals would have less calories - that the point of a healthy meal...To fill you up using low-caloric foods.

To hinder you from doing what? From eating?

I have a BMI of 33. 30 is obese. I weight 230 pounds and I used to weight 140, but I got started on psychiatric medication that makes you gain weight and also makes you sluggish. So I stopped working out, and I gained 10 pounds a month for 9 months, and here we are, 230 lbs. But the thing is before I started working out and was skinny at 140, I was 160, and I didn't have to work out to stay at 160. Pills slowed down my metabolism.

Thanks for sharing your input everybody. Watching super-size me and food inc. got me interested in this topic. lol

Well, yes.

But to be honest, people still tried to eat too much food anyway. I could see some people physically forcing themselves to eat more when they obviously had enough already.