Frugal Moms

I covered a litany of things about how being big is costing people money.  Today I am going to cover more frugal issues about how it costs, and how much you can save.  A person who is morbidly obese, which 30% of ya’ll are, has a higher rate of death from heart disease, complications from diabetes, stroke, cancer, and more.  Losing just 20% of one’s body weight can lower all of these complications drastically.  Let’s say you are a somewhat healthy, 32 year old, 220 pound male at the height of 5′9″. If you weigh this much you are very much so over weight.  If you lost just 44 pounds to 176 pounds, your risks for all types of diseases would go down amazing amounts.

Let’s talk about the expense of disease.  Let’s just say diabetes, it costs at least 45 dollars a month for test strips to check your glucose, then there is what ever medication you take which could be a pill or an awful shot, or now days they have a pump.  This is every month, where as if you just lost 20% of your weight by riding 20 miles to work everyday, which also lowers your chance of diabetes by almost 58%, you wouldn’t have to pay for any of that stuff. Then there are the doctor visits every month and the specialists.  Then you have to pay nutritionists.  You see it is a never ending cycle of illness which can be avoiding by dedication to saving money.

Some diseases aren’tfrom weight and I understand this.  I was born with asthma.  However, my mom wasn’t born with diabetes, high blood pressure or high cholesterol.   She gained all those things by eating too much and not working enough.  I want to add one last thing, if you love your kids, exercise and eat right to lose that 20% if you are over weight.  My mom died when I was only 19 and my sister was 11.  It was something I would wish on anyone.

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