Health Insurance: modify your diet for health and savings

You can tweak your eating habits and come out with more energy, better health, and still save money over time. Here’s how…

Never skip breakfast. It would seem cheaper to skip breakfast and go on coffee alone, but if you plan it well, breakfast can be cheap and convenient. Benefits include a natural energy boost to start the day and it makes you less ravenous at lunch time, so you spend less and make better food choices when you eat.

Eat more fibre. Instead of snacking on candy and chocolates, try noshing on fresh fruits instead like blueberries or raspberries or dried apricots or raisins, all of which are cheaper than good chocolate. Keep a loaf of whole wheat bread, for when you get hungry so you got something filling and tasty to snack on.

Drink water, bottle your own, and drink at least 64 ounces a day. Most people would sniff at the thought of drinking bottled tap water and would prefer branded H2O, but you can have huge savings by personally bottling your own tap water. Drinking H2O has great health benefits: it makes you feel less hungry, helps your immune system in fighting disease, and reduces tiredness and stress.

These choices will give you a little savings, but the real payoff comes over the long haul because following these options leads to better health and reduce your health care costs over your lifetime.