{"id":47167,"date":"2019-07-10T17:45:32","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T22:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47167"},"modified":"2019-07-10T17:45:35","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T22:45:35","slug":"over-50-the-important-investment-you-need-to-make","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47167","title":{"rendered":"Over 50? The Important Investment you NEED to Make&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dweaay7e22a7h.cloudfront.net\/wp-content_3\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Over-50-The-Important-Investment-you-NEED-to-Make-650x360.jpg\" alt=\"Over 50? The Important Investment you NEED to Make...\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyreckoning.com\/over-50-the-important-investment-you-need-to-make\/\">Over 50? The Important Investment you NEED to Make&#8230;<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What do you call an investment that has no risk, requires little \u2014 if any \u2014 money to start, is available equally to the rich and poor, is proven to improve your career prospects\u2026&nbsp;&nbsp;can generate hundreds of thousands of dollars in savings over a lifetime?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I call it good health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although you might view spending on your health as a necessary expense, I\u2019d argue it\u2019s an investment that will pay back dividends.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Health is one of the least talked about financial topics but arguably the most important.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Without good health, it doesn\u2019t matter how much money you have in the bank because you won\u2019t ever be able to enjoy it if you\u2019re always sick.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to&nbsp;<em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em>, the average individual will rack up $220,000 worth of health expenses in retirement.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It should come as no surprise, but getting old is not cheap.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are, however, proven things you can do today that will help decrease your health costs tomorrow.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For instance, one study from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that weight loss at any age leads to cost savings. The study found it costs people more when they\u2019re overweight \u2013 especially as they age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the study:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>A 20-year-old adult who goes from obese to overweight would save an average of $17,655 in direct medical costs and productivity losses over their lifetime. If that person went from obese to a healthy weight, the savings would jump to $28,020.<\/li><li>If a 40-year-old adult goes from being obese to overweight, that person potentially can save an average of $18,262. If that person improves their health from obese to a healthy weight, an average savings of $31,447 in direct medical costs and productivity losses can follow.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 50? The Important Investment you NEED to Make&#8230; What do you call an investment that has no risk, requires little \u2014 if any \u2014 money to start, is available equally to the rich and poor, is proven to improve your career prospects\u2026&nbsp;&nbsp;can generate hundreds of thousands of dollars in savings over a lifetime?&nbsp; I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4861,11023,26238,26239],"class_list":["post-47167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-age","tag-daily-reckoning","tag-nilus-mattive","tag-personal-investment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47168,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47167\/revisions\/47168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}