Eating healthy doesn’t cost much

Alexei Sorokin
4 min readNov 27, 2021

The other day I saw a story on Medium “Why is eating healthy so expensive?”

No link from me to this story, ’cause I disagree with it so much! I was almost outraged by its bull-shitness!

The premise was that for 10 bucks you get more calories out of 5 donuts than 5 apples.

That’s literally comparing oranges to apples! Well, donuts to apples.

In this note, I’m not going to analyze the exact nutritional content of different products or look at the budget of eating healthy versus eating junk. One of…

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Alexei Sorokin

A Russian immigrant in America, father of 4, Cambridge and Harvard Business School alum. I run and write every day. https://runningwritingliving.substack.com/