Hardly Healthful

OK, it’s good to eat healthfully. Is it more expensive? Yes, at least for now, find researchers at the Department of Human Nutrition in Adelaide, Australia. In a study published recently in the Journal of Nutrition Education, they show that the most common way to eat a more healthful diet--replacing high-fat or high-salt prepared foods with their low-fat and low-sodium counterparts--is more expensive. At least until some future day when manufacturers provide a greater range of more healthful products at lower cost, it seems your best bet to eat healthfully and save money will be to restructure your diet from the ground up. And that, the authors of the study note sadly, is a great deal more difficult for most people than simply swapping one food for another.