Looking at obesity through an economic lens can be a powerful new way to change thinking and finally get the body you want.

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"You can never be too rich or too thin" is an old saying,

often attributed to the Duchess of Windsor. Of course, it comes off as snooty — if she had coined it today, imagine her Twitter ratios. Here's the thing, though: Body weight and net worth truly are intertwined, and research shows that the more pounds people carry, the less money they tend to have.

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This works on different levels. Say you're an obese 20-year-old who drops to a healthy weight.

According to a 2017 study from Johns Hopkins University, your estimated lifetime savings in health care and productivity would be $28,020. For a 50-year-old, it'd be $36,278.

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Jay Zagorsky, Ph.D., an economist and researcher at Ohio State University.

has been examining the weight-wealth connection for more than a decade. His 2015 study, published in the Oxford Handbook of Economics and Human Biology, revealed this price tag:
For every pound of extra weight gained, $226 of wealth is lost.
For every point of body mass index gained, $1,900 of wealth is lost.
So by Zagorsky's calculation, if you're 50 pounds overweight, you're cheating yourself out of more than $11,000.

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Find more here : menshealth.com

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