Is a healthy diet more expensive?

euronorris

Is it a kilo of added sugar per week, or a kilo of sugar in total? (Ie, including natural sugars)

Over eating, just like under eating, is heavily linked to your mental and emotional health. The vast majority of people know what a well balanced diet looks like, but many of us don't follow it. If it was easy to do, we would all do it. But it's clearly not that simple.

Auntycaz

I think most of the sugar in my diet comes from fruit but it is hidden in so many foods. Apparently ketchup is very high in it.(Glad I don't like it).

Longwalker

Auntycaz said:

I think most of the sugar in my diet comes from fruit but it is hidden in so many foods. Apparently ketchup is very high in it.(Glad I don't like it).

This is back from 2014, its not exhaustive but it does give an idea where hidden sugar lurks blogs-magazine-monitor-25666556

Nelliegrace

It is the sugar put into commercial foods and the sugar added at home. Some children’s breakfast cereals are over a third sugar.
Most people serve much more than the 30g recommended portion when pouring out breakfast cereals.

jackieblack

And all carbs (except fibre) convert to glucose in the body anyway

YoungBlueEyes

If you're trying to cut down on sugar and are reading ingredient lists on stuff, look out for words ending in -ose. Glucose, sucrose, fructose. They're all sugars.

Blue_Doggy

jackieblack said:

And all carbs (except fibre) convert to glucose in the body anyway

YoungBlueEyes said:

If you're trying to cut down on sugar and are reading ingredient lists on stuff, look out for words ending in -ose. Glucose, sucrose, fructose. They're all sugars.

That’s very true, but they are metabolised differently: fructose in particular is very different.
https://nutrition.org/sugars-created-equal-lets-talk-fructose-metabolism/
 

Also https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f3476b21-5b47-44c0-b049-f1c34987d50c/download_file?file_format=application%2Fpdf&safe_filename=J%2BPhysiol%2BReview_Pinnick%2Band%2BHodson_Revised%2BManuscript_clean.pdf&type_of_work=Journal+article
 
Personally, I try to avoid foods containing glucose-fructose syrup ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-fructose_corn_syrup ) which is a by-product of over-production of subsidised maize in the US. The production of it is very highly processed. It’s increasingly found in lots of foods, not least because it’s cheaper and sweeter than other sugars. 
 

(Apologies for so many links.)

trailingspouse

jackieblack said:

And all carbs (except fibre) convert to glucose in the body anyway

But they bring along with them varying amounts of micronutrients, so can be very different indeed. Refined versus unrefined.

jackieblack

trailingspouse said:

jackieblack said:

And all carbs (except fibre) convert to glucose in the body anyway

But they bring along with them varying amounts of micronutrients, so can be very different indeed. Refined versus unrefined.

True, and as well as their GI, the rate of conversion is also affected by the combinations of other things they're eaten with, eg fat - a bag of crisps is converted more slowly than a plain potato - but still, ultimately, they're all converted to glucose whether slowly or quickly

MrsStepford

It's a good question. Difficult to answer.

If Person A gave up takeaways and gave up alcohol, they would be living more healthily and saving money. 

Person B might shop normally, but try to avoid chemicals which takes time but isn't more expensive. 

Person C might grow their own veg without chemicals and that's also cheap and healthy. 

Comparing types of bread is digging deep into detail. Dr Wolfgang Lutz wrote a bestseller called 'Living Without Bread' so some people may regard bread as unhealthy.