What Are The Costs Involved To Staying Healthy?

February 13, 2024
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Making sure we embrace an overall healthy lifestyle can add years (and memories) on to our lives. Choosing a proper diet and exercising regularly are two pillars that contribute to sustained mobility and longevity. But at what financial cost do we take on over time when embracing these habits?

In This Episode You Will Learn:

1). Meredith’s thoughts on what it means to live a “healthy lifestyle” as compared to an “unhealthy lifestyle”.

2). Why the cost of purchasing “healthier” choices at the grocery store can usually cost more than just processed foods and how that affects us as consumers.

3). How cooking healthier meals can take up more time during your day which means it takes more time to plan ahead.

4). Some of Meredith’s thoughts on gym fees and/or hiring a personal trainer.

5). How diet and exercise are directly related to the cost of healthcare especially as we age and knowing how to embrace healthier habits can help cut down these costs.

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Staying health through diet and exercise is the key to a long sustainable life but also making sure these habits are affordable is also part of the equation. Each person will have a different story as to what is important to them and how much they feel is affordable when it comes to food, exercise and healthcare.

We hope the tips we’ve shared in this episode are helpful to you or someone you know who may be looking at planning for a healthy life in all areas including, physically, mentally, emotionally and of course financially.

Team Meredith

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Meet Your Host
Meredith Chen is an AFAA-certified personal and group fitness trainer and the host of the popular YouTube channel, Senior Fitness with Meredith. She has been training for over 15 years, has been endorsed by healthcare professionals and physical therapists, and has shadowed top industry experts to continuously create the best and safest content for her viewers and participants.

Meredith became interested in working with older adults after a client asked her to become the Fitness Coordinator at a local senior community, and the rest is history! Meredith has a passion for motivating others to lead happy and healthy lifestyles and is dedicated to helping seniors enrich their mental, physical, and nutritional wellness. Her goals are to help all audiences in their health and fitness journey, be an overall inspiration, and help others reach their goals.

Meredith says, “I see fitness not just as a ‘go, go, go,’ ‘push yourself harder,’ ‘run faster’ objective. It is more purposeful, more long-term in benefits, and for overall wellness.”
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