1. High Blood Pressure: The more you weigh, the higher your blood pressure. Besides having a stroke or heart attack high blood pressure can lead to blindness and kidney failure. How much are one of your eyes or one of your kidneys worth to you?
2. Cancer: Every type of cancer is 50% increased when a person is overweight. There is a 5x greater chance of getting gallbladder cancer in men and women who carry extra weight. What is the worth of cancer free body or a body that can survive cancer?
3. Type 2 diabetes: 85% of type 2 diabetes cases are from overweight people. Here is a short list of the effects of type 2 diabetes; blindness, amputation, kidney and nerve disease, etc… I wouldn’t give up one of my legs for $30 million, what is the worth of being able to see?
4. Food: It shouldn’t be a secret that overweight people eat more than thin people. There are big people who would not like to admit it, but they eat more. And with eating more they have to spend more. Being just 30lbs over weight means an extra $10,000 more a year spent on food.
Next time you’re writing a check to your personal trainer or paying extra for organic fruit, remember how much price, cost, and worth of not having it is. You can’t put a price on health, you can’t put a price on fitness, but you can put a price on not having it!
The Journal of The American Medical Association (JAMA) and Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) overweight/obese
-Less likely to be married and more likely to be divorced
-Less likely to hold managerial jobs
-Spend more out of pocket on medical cost ($10,000 on average)
-Spend more on diet items (with lower likelihood of success)
-Spend more money on clothes
-Suffer from self-esteem and body image issues
Siddiqu “The Personal Trainer” is a CPT, motivational speaker, author of How Are You Fat and Saved?! He is also the Co-creator of the largest bootcamp in Chicago The No Excuse Bootcamp and the exercise series “You Would Think I Invented Sweat” for booking information or more fitness tips visit www.chicagofit4life.com