Can you still eat healthy on a low budget?
No, you can eat healthy
because of a low budget or income. In the old days, only the rich had access to certain luxuries, and one of if not the king of all luxuries back then was what we now call white poison. That's right, sugar...., add white flour to the mix whilst you're at it!
I've always heard people blaming obesity for low income.
Obesity has more than one cause, some are medical, some are psychological/emotional, others are based on ignorance and perhaps a belief that one needs to be rich to afford nutrient dense food.
Bad foods are supposedly cheaper and help keep you fuller for longer.
The opposite is also true when it comes to some of the best foods on this planet...., I'm thinking legumes and pulses, the resistant starch kings. Remember in another post of yours on juice, I did make mention of your internal health and there I wrote the word microbiome/your internal gut environment, healthy or otherwise. Yogurt is another very cheap food that is simply amazing for your internal health and it costs peanuts (no actually it's cheaper than peanuts and much better for you) when you make it yourself.
But when you look at potatoes, rices and even pastas they give you energy and fill you up. So what is your opinion on the matter? Can you eat healthy on a low amount of money? Why and why not?
Potatoes can not be placed in the same group as rice and pasta (generally speaking). Why is that? Because a potato is a whole food, rice and pasta that most people eat are generally speaking, devoid of any goodness bar the energy they provide in the form of their starchy carbohydrates. So what exactly are you saying Fadi, are they bad and are they to blame for the obesity some are suffering (blame due to their cheap prices)? My reply is absolutely not, if you care to teach yourself a little bit about food and how one can turn or render more nutritious what is less so. How is that done? By combining (say) some red kidney beans with pasta or rice. In doing so, you don't only add some much neeed nutritional elements that were missing from the two aforementioned foods, but you also create what most people (nutritionists included) are not aware of, and that is what we call the second meal effect. That's when eating a highly resistant-starch and soluble fiber food like a bean or a lentil with one that is not (rice and pasta). By doing so, you affect your insulin and blood sugar levels in a favourable way, where even when you eat your second meal (say the next morning after having a meal of rice and beans the night before), your morning meal does not have the same effect on your blood sugar levels as if you had not eaten the legumes the meal before.
Eggs (everyone here knows how I feel about the incredible egg yolk) are one of the cheapest and most nutritionally dense food out there..., and they're cheap. Even meat in Australia is cheap, and becomes even cheaper when you use is as a complementary food rather than a primary food.
I'll leave it here otherwise this will really drag and bore everyone. Thanks for your question Cristy, and I hope I've given you a somewhat satisfactory reply.
