Why We're Fat, The Best Investment Ever, 10 Cheapest Cities And More

Tuesday, June 12, 2012 An Unfortunate Consequence Of Shrinking Grocery Bills Health advocates have one tip for Americans trying to eat less fat, sodium and sugar in their diets: Shop the perimeter. In other words, buy food from the produce, dairy and meat aisles and avoid the inner lanes where processed foods and sugary snacks hang out. But turns out this advice is either badly needed, or being badly ignored, as the greatest portion of Americans' grocery spend is straight from the center aisles. A series of charts published as part of Planet Money's Graphing America series on National Public Radio's website shows the real reason Americans are getting fatter: Nearly 23 percent of the grocery bill is for processed foods and sweets, making it the single biggest category for household's grocery spend; meat comes next with just more than 21 percent. Compare that to 30 years ago, when meat made up the biggest portion of the grocery bill, fruits and vegetables second and processed foods ranked a distant fifth. Debt Collector Harassment Like 'Satan On Earth' TV Watching Is About To Get More Dangerous In This Town, Your Messy Lawn Could Cost You $1,000 'The Best Investment I Ever Made' Here Are The 10 Cheapest Cities In The U.S. BLOG POSTS Richard Kirsch: The House's Latest Health Care Vote Puts Campaign Cash Ahead of People Last week the House voted to increase health care costs on middle-class families in order to protect one of the most profitable industries in the country. And almost nobody noticed. Dr. Daniel Seidman: Who Really Pays for Smoking? Industries that sell products shown to make people sick when used as directed should be held accountable for their true economic and human costs. David Callahan: Master's Degree Mania: Employers Win, Students Lose The explosion of master's degree is great for employers and it's great for universities. It's just not great for all the young people now caught up in an expensive educational arms race. Subhash Kateel: I'll Root for the Miami Heat, But Never for Arison "It ain't where you're from, it's where you're at." With that in mind, let's go Heat. No one can debate how good their game is. So when the NBA finals begin tonight with the jump ball, I know who I am rooting for. But it is not Micky Arison. Keli Goff: What P. Diddy and Mitt Romney Have in Common The fact that the son of one of the wealthiest African-Americans in the country will be attending school on a full scholarship has rankled many. But Diddy's son is not the first wealthy offspring to be awarded a scholarship, and he is unlikely to be the last.

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