Stop Treating Your Body Like a Garbage Can
Posted by M.S. on May 3, 2009
Dr. Mehmet Oz, the bestselling author and health expert on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” came to North Carolina recently to raise money and awareness for a local health clinic.
According to the Charlotte Observer Dr. Oz said ” The reason we cost 50 percent more to care for than Europeans is because we’re 50 percent sicker. We need to walk more, eat high-fiber, high-protein breakfasts, get more vitamin D and omega-3 and trim our waists, he said, rattling off dozens more health tips.”
2/3 of Americans are either overweight or obese and it is getting worse! “Forty percent of our kids will be diabetics if we don’t do something about this!” Dr. Oz said. Forty percent!
The line that struck me was this one: “Are you willing to admit that your life is so out of control that you can’t carve out 20 minutes a day for a workout?”
People that take care of their bodies have much lower health care costs and take less medicine– so they have more money!
A woman recently told me her doctor scolded her at her latest checkup and said “If you don’t want to have to pay for expensive blood pressure medicine, cholesterol pills and diabetes treatments, and possibly end up in an expensive nursing home, then stop treating your body like a garbage can!”
There are many parallels between taking care of our physical health and taking care of our financial health. It is actually very simple. Eat less and exercise more. Spend less and save more.
When you love yourself enough to treat your body well, you also will treat yourself well financially and believe that you are worthy of being financially secure.
Start today and do a little something in both these areas to make some progress. Go for a little walk, choose not to buy one small item and save that money.
Look what eliminating one gourmet muffin or latte can save you and what it will add towards a fabulous future.
You deserve it!
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