Growing Your Health Fund
June 5, 2009 | (0)
This past week at the American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting, I learned a lot about how drug companies are developing cancer therapies aimed at tumor-specific targets. It was fascinating, exciting and a bit sobering. It seems like with every advance made on the disease, cancer finds a way to outsmart us. To be fair, some breakthroughs have been made. I just don’t think there is a simple cure waiting around the corner.
Invest your bling in your health savings
I don’t mean to be all Debbie Downer. What I want to say in this post is that, given the odds of finding a cure, to me it makes a lot of sense to try my best to avoid cancer altogether. I know it’s not a sure bet, but living a healthy lifestyle is the best way to do it. I got to thinking: Why don’t I approach my health like I do my retirement fund? I sock away a portion of my paycheck every month in the hopes that there will be enough to support me when I decide to quit working for good. What if for every vegetable I eat, for every glass of water I drink instead of a soda, for every minute of exercise I endure, I think of it as dropping a few bucks into a health fund? It’s the same principle: take an action today that is intended to pay off in the future. With a health fund, I am “investing” in my golden years, in the quality of life I want to have. When I retire, I want to travel the world and volunteer and garden and write a novel…I better start aggressively investing in MY health fund if I’m going to do all of that.
Photo credit Brooks Elliott
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