Your Health - The Compound Effect

I'd like to tell you a story.  It's about my dad and how he indirectly influenced me to take responsibility for my long term health.  You see, my dad was a walking billboard of health in the early 1980's.  He was weight training 6 days a week and only had the one real bad habit...smoking.  We urged him to quit and he finally did before the decade was out.  Unfortunately, like many ex-smokers do, they begin to gain weight because their focus turns to another addiction.  FOOD.

My dad spent 18 years in chosen profession working up the Corporate ladder and each time he was promoted he was faced with more responsibility, longer hours, more office politics and ultimately stress.  It finally caught up with him at age 49.  His smoking past, food past and current stress led to his first angioplasty.  That's where an artery is completely or partially blocked and they send a balloon like device into the blockage and inflate it to open up the blood flow.  That procedure was followed by a second one at age 51, and a third one age 52.  A double bypass followed 10 years later.  These occurrences did not just manifest overnight.  It wasn't a mistake.

They began with small choices each day on the day added up over time.  The Compound Effect.

Too many people leave their health to chance and only appreciate how valuable it is once it's gone or if they finally encounter a symptom of degenerative disease.  Did you know the first symptom of a heart attack in 40% of the cases is death?

It doesn't have to be that way.  Modest exercise, optimal cellular nutrition and a healthy low glycemic diet can add years to your life.

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Four Expenses That Keep The Middle Class Struggling

1. Taxes – Most people have a job, they have to work hard, follow instructions from their bosses and superiors and get paid.  They don’t own their time.  These are people who love security or tenure.  They will work hard to climb up the corporate ladder.  The higher they climb the ladder, the higher their pay is.  Sad to say, the higher their pay is, the higher their taxes are.  And it’s not them getting rich, it’s their bosses, it’s their company.  Time will come soon enough, when they will begin to burn out and get tired.  Their body will collapse because of stress and age.  And when they stop working, they will also stop receiving income.

2. Debt – Raising taxes forces people to live with more debt, since more and more of people’s money goes to the Government to fund social programs.  Credit cards will become more essential for daily survival and ultimately people without access to credit will begin to slip below the poverty line.

3.  Inflation – The primary cause of inflation is the Government printing money.  Inflation is caused by the purchasing power of your money going down as more and more dollars flood the existing pool of money, which means prices of many essential products, such as food, fuel and services go up as more dollars chase the same amount of goods.  Inflation is often called “the invisible tax”, which is hardest on the poor, elderly, savers, low income workers and fixed income retirees.

4.  Retirement – How do you take care of an aging population that cannot provide for themselves? The answer to that question may well be more expensive than the current world economic woes.  Today, many families are entering into financial bankruptcy due to retirement and even medical costs.

Clearly, the traditional means of working a 40 year career are not working…The only question that remains is what are you going to do differently?