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There is a reason why the nation of Switzerland has the best health statistics of any industrialized nation and why the United States has nearly the worst, despite the fact that the people of the U.S. spending more on health care than any other nation. That reason is that the Swiss people eat nutritiously and the people of the U.S. don't. The Swiss are famous for precision watches and eating at home prepared meals made from fresh ingredients (i.e., not eating empty calorie, fast food like Americans).
Americans are famous for fast food. Americans primarily eat nutrient empty food — characterized by too much sugar, carbs, salt, adulterated fats and food preservatives.
You will lose from 2 to 7 days of potential lifespan or high quality of life for each month that you delay adopting the best health habits (depending on how bad your current health habits are).
Cumulatively, that's as much as 23 years of potential life or optimal quality of health that you can easily lose by not having optimal habits.
Can you imagine how much you would pay to get even half of those years back at the end of your life (once you realize your health is in serious trouble)? Don't you think that really enjoying those 6.5 to 23 "golden" years (the years after retirement without the pressures of work) would be worth learning and implementing the Five Habits of Health? Especially when these habits are really quite simple and easy.
"Two roads diverged in the woods and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference in the world!" — Robert Frost.
The end of the Standard American Diet road is:
The end of the Healthy Living road is:
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