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<\/a><\/p>\nThe reality of the day is that when you are trying to balance a tight budget you aren’t looking to save the environment or your physical health but instead to save your bottom line.\u00a0 Choices are made based on the “most bang for the buck” in the shortest term then worry about the consequences later.\u00a0 The unfortunate truth of the situation is that those consequences don’t come as late as people hoped they would, sooner than later you will be buying more bulbs for a buck, paying for an expensive visit to your physician, spending way to much on medications to clear up the medical conditions those bad choices created in your body.\u00a0 If we lived in a perfect world people could chose their nutrition based on the best value for their body and not the best value for their pocket.\u00a0 It comes down to choices, with your nutrition you should look at the overall picture yet most people choose like there is no tomorrow, based on your choices today a brighter tomorrow may never come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Life: Its a multiple choice The days are getting shorter and colder, bears are hibernating, birds are migrating and I am starting to get caught up on my list of things to do indoors, que…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[25,74],"class_list":["post-1674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nutrition","tag-behavior","tag-economics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1qEFP-r0","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10744,"url":"https:\/\/bodynsoil.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/easy-email-cleanup-unroll\/","url_meta":{"origin":1674,"position":0},"title":"Easy Email Cleanup with Unroll.me","author":"Bodynsoil","date":"January 3, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0Start the new year off right; cleanup your email Face it, you\u2019ve needed an email cleanup and overhaul for too long. 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<\/a>In the article “Why we Buy” Adam discusses Behavior Economics and uses the purchase of a light bulb as an example of the thoughts behind the human decision making process. When he arrives at the store\u00a0 Adam is faced with three choices in bulbs; a standard bulb which costs less has a shorter life that uses more resources to operate, a bulb that lasts 8 times longer costs 7 times more than the cheap bulb and uses a significant less resource to operate, last choice is a bulb that both costs and last 3 times as long as the cheapest bulb and saves a little bit of resource to operate. Which did he chose, which would you most likely chose, Adam took the middle road and picked the mid range bulb. Had Adam been thinking long term he would have spent 7 times more and had a bulb that lasted 8 times longer that saved even more money annually in operating costs. Behavioral economics first rule, according to Adam’s article at least, is that we shouldn’t live only in the present but instead think long term and spend more today to save a lot more over time. Humans tend to make decisions in the short term that risk harming us in the long run. According to Adam economists have labeled this process instant gratification, that sounds familiar, I see and hear that in the health world.<\/p>\n