How much is your diet? (Estimation about prices of “traditional Hungarian”, diabetic, low energy diets, and related life-style expenses)

Abstract

Nutrition and lifestyle-related diseases are some of the leading morbidities among the Hungarian population. People who want to lose weight often complain that healthy diet is expensive.Our aim was to quantify the costs of three different types of diet for a three-day period. We compared "traditional Hungarian", low energy, and diabetic diets, considering both energy content and expenses related to lifestyle.According to our estimation: diabetic (including medication) and "traditional" Hungarian diets were the most expensive. Low energy diet proved to be the most cost-effective despite the extra expenditures of higher physical activity.

Addressing Cardiovascular Disease Risk in HungarianAmerican Populations: A Cultural Exploration of Transdisciplinary Health Promotion

“…An additional consideration in the emotional cost analysis of traditional Hungarian fare is the actual financial costs of those foods versus a healthier diet, often falsely perceived by Hungarian Americans as much more expensive than their traditional diet, a factor that was examined in a recent study (Iski, Biro, Ungvari, Rurika, 2016) in respect to Hungarians living within Hungary, one which may not implicitly apply to Hungarian Americans per say, yet is still worthy of consideration. In this comparative study, researchers analyzed the cost in Hungarian currency of three specific dietary protocol: traditional Hungarian, low energy, and diabetic, while accounting for the ingredients of each meal and corresponding retail costs.…”