TOO EXPENSIVE TO EAT HEALTHY?

Every day we hear about them on the news.
We read about them on the Internet and they are a Hot Topic of discussion no matter where you go.
Who are they?

They are the TOP 10 AMERICAN KILLERS.

• Heart Disease
• Cancer
• Stroke
• Chronic lower respiratory disease
• Accidents
• Alzheimer's disease
• Influenza and Pneumonia
• Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome and nephrosis (acute or chronic inflammations of the kidneys
• Septicemia (Presence of bacteria in the blood and is associated with severe infections)

Information retrieved July 18,2011 from www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm

According to USA Today, 65% of Americans weigh too much--increasing their risk to heart disease, diabetes and cancer.
Source: www.usatoday.com/news/health/2004-03-09-obesity_x.htm

     I was alarmed at what I was reading in last week's news. It was being suggested by doctors that obese children would be better off being put in foster care than stay with their parents.
This information was found on http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/news/health/should-parents-lose-custody-of-super-obese-kids?-doctors,-ethicists-say-yes,-in-extreme-cases another doctor was saying the same thing on this website, www.news.yahoo.com/state-obese-kids-parents-us-doctors-022057756.html.  In this article it mentioned, "only a handful of states, including California, Indiana, Iowa, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania and Texas have legal precedent for applying this framework to over nourishment and severe obesity." Being overweight and obese has been and is becoming more serious by the day.



Everyone is quick to say when someone is doing something wrong or quick to point out problems but HARDLY EVER do they offer SOLUTIONS.

Hey, I heard that. "What are we supposed to do? It is TOOOOO EXPENSIVE TO EAT HEALTHY" 
I have heard this statement more than once in the last decade from different people in different circumstances of different cultures and backgrounds. This problem effects many people and they don't know what to do. Unless someone comes along and really works with the American population, yes, it would seem TOO EXPENSIVE TO EAT HEALTHY.


This week I am hoping to change that perspective. I am hoping to get your wheels spinning to come up with things you have used in the past when shopping for healthy food items on a tight budget AND POST THEM ON THIS BLOG. 
If you have not attempted healthy budget shopping in the past, then I challenge you to read this blog and try some of these helpful tips and tricks to a more healthy family.