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Eat right this New Year: It��s the wisest of all investments

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Tue, Jan 01, 2008 13:56:53 IST

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CLICHÉ IT is to say ‘health is wealth and if health is lost all is lost’. But this cliché holds much more water today than ever before. Whoever was instrumental to framing such a phrase that later became a cliché, (we don’t know when it was first used and who was the person behind it), it is sure that he/she was not so vulnerable to the maladies of food and his/her eating habits.

Let us look at the investment side of our eating habits. Though various streams of medical sciences have developed by leaps and bounds, people happen to have very complicated and indefinable medical conditions and the medical fraternity stands ill-prepared to offer a solution for this lifestyle-related medical challenge. The Chinese say, ‘you are what you eat’. Japanese are of the opinion that, if you eat right you’ll get rich. The Costa Ricans have the same to say in a different way. ‘Right food at right time makes everything right’. “Feed to be fit and be fit to be fed” is a phrase I find appropriate in an investment point of view.

Since being fit is a matter of life and being unfit is a matter of, you know what; it makes a lot of business sense to eat right. The pleasure, that stays in your tongue for a fraction of a minute of every time you eat your favourite dish, leaves a permanent deposit somewhere in your body. These deposits keep on maturing and in a fine morning you will come to understand that these deposits do not offer you any interest, rather they get you extra medical bills and unproductive days. These days won’t let you produce as much money as you had been able to in your ‘good food days’. Instead you will be forced to spend a lot from whatever you have managed to deposit in your bank accounts.

This is a multiple loss. Primarily, you are unable to produce as much as you did before due to your being sick of you food habits. Secondly, you are forced to make health investments from your pocket. It is in the form of medical bills and health insurance cover. Thirdly, your future investments prospects get blurred, as you get weaker and weaker due to ill health and your being unable to eat food items you like most. The last one is the most disappointing one, for one like you.

Depression sets in, insecurity takes over and finally you are declared inoperative. In today’s monetary regime, inoperative is word, which does not attract many. What we need today is operative investment options. If these investments are time sensitive, it is better because, it is time that makes monetary sense now. When time makes monetary or business sense, having more productive time in your hands would make you much wealthier than one who unfortunately gets declared inoperative or dormant prematurely. Does it not make sense?

If eating right can keep you fit for longer years thereby avoiding a lot of medical bills and ensuring improved productivity and sustaining peace of mind, it makes great business sense. This is the best of all investments, for you need to have more time to make your money work harder for you or in other words, you need to have more time to make more money.

If our eating habits were bound to cut down on our future investments possibilities, it would be the worst thing one could do for oneself. Therefore, it is a wise idea to develop a healthy eating habit in the very early stages of our life. Foods that deprive you your precious time and life are slow poisons. The money you spend for the same could be called a ‘deadly investment’. Let us feed ourselves to be fit and be fit ourselves to be fed. It is a win-win situation, for the person in particular and for the polity in general: ‘A little food for your health?

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