Every year, Americans spend billions of dollars on treating chronic diseases.
The costs of preventing illness are much less than the cost of maintaining one. The burden of chronic disease is enormous on our finances, time, energy, emotion, and relationships is enormous.
Sadly, one in two of us will become the lucky winners of at least one chronic disease in the US. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the top four causes of chronic disease are from preventable causes (listed in order):
- Lack of physical activity;
- Poor diet;
- Smoking;
- Alcohol abuse
So how can you avoid being a statistic?
Well, the obvious answer is probably to exercise more, eat better, smoke less, and avoid abusing alcohol. Right?
Affording healthier food
Well, I’ve heard from many of you that buying healthy, organic foods is difficult because it is expensive or just plain unavailable.
Besides the fact that you could just start your own garden to raise health-full foods without much expense, (listen to the gardening podcast with the Seattle Tilth here), let’s also ask this question: how can we shift our mindset around what we can afford? How can we plug our money leaks now so that we actually have money to spend on things that matter? Like buying food that nourishes us, and doesn’t poison us.
The mindset that keeps us poor
In this interview, our money and mindset expert, Emily Zillig describes how we can shift our money mindset. She helps us see that we probably have more money than we think, but we might be spending it in ways that don’t have a high return on investment. She shares with us just how much we might be able to save if we shift a few habits. And she does it all without taking your daily latte away!
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