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As with many things, it's easier to stay healthy if you are wealthy.

You can buy personal training services, workout gear, a home in traffic-calmed neighborhoods where you aren't jogging or cycling along rural highways, a pool, etc.

You can buy fresh fruit and vegetables instead of highly-processed food. If you're American you can buy imported or certified organic meat instead of the hormone-filled shit on the shelves at grocery stores. You can spend less time working and more time cooking healthy, with no pressure to eat fast food because you're in a rush.

Money really does buy happiness.

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Statistically, yes. And statical health things are the only health things to really worry about (because you can't ever do things to avoid getting cancer, you can only ever do things to decrease your chance of getting cancer).

But then again, the list of things that statistically keeps you healthy while being expensive is actually very short (GLP-1s currently being the most notable item on it).

Supposedly this is going to change in the near to mid future with more wonder drugs incoming. But, for the time being, that's nice!

Personal training services? Workout gear? Not sure you should have lead with that, these are expensive things with minimal impact.

If you are wealthy, it does not matter if they are expensive. If they have any impact, why not?

Sure, why not, it’s just not selling the idea that money buys happiness…

I mean if I had someone tailoring workouts to me, keeping me motivated to stick with a training regimen, and free time enough to get super fit and look great naked, I'd sure be happier.

You are looking at it from the wrong perspective, you are trying to fit "healthy" into your current environment. I think it's the wrong approach.

For example: societies that live the longest and are generally the healthiest do not have gym equipment or trainers, exercise is a core part of their every day life.

The mistake you are making [I think] is looking at these things as impossible goals because of lack of more money so it is easy not to try and risk failure.

Those services aid will power instead of health directly.

Both have quite a lot of impact if you're wealthy because they're combined with resources and time to do them.

If you're not wealthy you can do them, but you have to sacrifice other things, and some of those you wont be able to afford.

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And better healthcare.

I accompanied a family member in an ambulance recently and I had the ambulance rerouted to a private clinic. They needed a €25k payment guarantee but we were able to go into surgery within a day.

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