Health Costs - What Does Long Term Health Really Cost?
Ok, so lets get on top of the costs involved in a healthy lifestyle.
Its not free to be healthy you know.
Everything costs money.
Its a crazy world yeah I know! So a healthy lifestyle involves eating healthy, doing healthy exercise, doing healthy activities, taking out health insurance, and medical insurance, and spending money on health enriching information.
There are both money costs and time costs.
Remember time and money are resources, and time is a commodity that we can't recover.
Eating healthy is a lifestyle choice.
It means you need to spend time going out to the supermarket, and fresh fruit and vegetable markets in order to bring home the ingredients for making healthy nutritious meals.
You need to spend time cooking and preparing these meals.
Its not as easy as dropping by a fast food joint or ordering pizza.
It costs money and time to eat well.
So is it worth it? That's for you to decide.
All I know is that a healthy diet is a major contributor to longevity, and a healthy disease free life.
Again it is a long term gain.
You may avoid stints in the hospital recovering from painful or crippling diseases, which could even stop you from eating some foods altogether.
I am a massive believer in balanced diets.
It's fine by me if people eat in the fast food joint or order pizza once a month or twice a month.
If it gets up to once or twice a week, I think that is pushing the limits.
The way to think is long term here.
You need to imagine the combined effect of eating greasy processed food over the duration of a year, or a few years.
For one, it will affect your body's metabolism, your calorie intake, the chemical processes in the body, the accumulation of toxic chemicals and inhibitors.
It combines over time to give you less energy, and it leads to increased signs of aging.
These are just the tip of the iceberg in terms of long term effects.
Let's say you had a fast food meal once a week.
That adds up to over 50 sets of fries burgers and cokes a year.
Oh my! What's that doing to how you look, feel and operate on the inside? At a point, your body is fighting for its health and it is being consistently bombarded with anti health arrows, and something is going to break.
The other way to view it is to imagine the person who eats a few pieces of fruit every day, lets say 3.
Well, that means after a year the person has eaten over 1000 pieces of fruit.
Think for a second about the beneficial antioxidants that help your skin, the vitamins that help in energy cycles, and other processes, and the hydration provided in the fruits.
Could that combined effect possibly lead to a more efficient body? Could it possibly lead to a younger looking body? It is highly likely.
However I have not seen a test like this done, but can you argue with logic? As I always do, I always go back to first principles and science for validation.
Putting unhealthy stuff in your body for long periods leads to unhealthy results.
Putting healthy stuff in your body leads to healthy results.
Obviously people will mix the unhealthy with the healthy, with results that will of course be mixed.
There is no example of a perfect life, but the more healthy food you eat, in general the better for your long term health, and the opposite is also true.
Its not free to be healthy you know.
Everything costs money.
Its a crazy world yeah I know! So a healthy lifestyle involves eating healthy, doing healthy exercise, doing healthy activities, taking out health insurance, and medical insurance, and spending money on health enriching information.
There are both money costs and time costs.
Remember time and money are resources, and time is a commodity that we can't recover.
Eating healthy is a lifestyle choice.
It means you need to spend time going out to the supermarket, and fresh fruit and vegetable markets in order to bring home the ingredients for making healthy nutritious meals.
You need to spend time cooking and preparing these meals.
Its not as easy as dropping by a fast food joint or ordering pizza.
It costs money and time to eat well.
So is it worth it? That's for you to decide.
All I know is that a healthy diet is a major contributor to longevity, and a healthy disease free life.
Again it is a long term gain.
You may avoid stints in the hospital recovering from painful or crippling diseases, which could even stop you from eating some foods altogether.
I am a massive believer in balanced diets.
It's fine by me if people eat in the fast food joint or order pizza once a month or twice a month.
If it gets up to once or twice a week, I think that is pushing the limits.
The way to think is long term here.
You need to imagine the combined effect of eating greasy processed food over the duration of a year, or a few years.
For one, it will affect your body's metabolism, your calorie intake, the chemical processes in the body, the accumulation of toxic chemicals and inhibitors.
It combines over time to give you less energy, and it leads to increased signs of aging.
These are just the tip of the iceberg in terms of long term effects.
Let's say you had a fast food meal once a week.
That adds up to over 50 sets of fries burgers and cokes a year.
Oh my! What's that doing to how you look, feel and operate on the inside? At a point, your body is fighting for its health and it is being consistently bombarded with anti health arrows, and something is going to break.
The other way to view it is to imagine the person who eats a few pieces of fruit every day, lets say 3.
Well, that means after a year the person has eaten over 1000 pieces of fruit.
Think for a second about the beneficial antioxidants that help your skin, the vitamins that help in energy cycles, and other processes, and the hydration provided in the fruits.
Could that combined effect possibly lead to a more efficient body? Could it possibly lead to a younger looking body? It is highly likely.
However I have not seen a test like this done, but can you argue with logic? As I always do, I always go back to first principles and science for validation.
Putting unhealthy stuff in your body for long periods leads to unhealthy results.
Putting healthy stuff in your body leads to healthy results.
Obviously people will mix the unhealthy with the healthy, with results that will of course be mixed.
There is no example of a perfect life, but the more healthy food you eat, in general the better for your long term health, and the opposite is also true.
