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Are you unhappy with your current weight but aren't "motivated" enough to do something about it? ×Ö´®5 Well then... have I got an incentive for you! ×Ö´®4 Did you know that your wealth can increase dramatically as your weight goes down? ×Ö´®9 This seemingly incredible link between your weight and your wealth was revealed in a study published in the Economics and Human Biology journal by Jay Zagorsky, author of the study and a research scientist at Ohio State University's Center for Human Resource Research. ×Ö´®9 But before you get too excited, it's important to know that losing a little weight here and there won't make a significant difference to your wealth. ×Ö´®7 If you really want to impact your wealth, you have to move from overweight or obese into the normal range. A drop of 5 or 10 pounds is simply not enough. ×Ö´®9 “The typical person who loses or gains a few pounds had almost no change in wealth, but those who lost or gained large amounts of weight had a more dramatic change,?Zagorsky said. ×Ö´®6 For example, white women who dropped their body mass index score (BMI) by 10 points saw a wealth increase of $11,880. ×Ö´®6 It's also interesting to note that a person's net worth tends to reach a peak when the weight is in the normal range. Coincidence? ×Ö´®8 Of course, nobody can say for sure from the study whether a person's wealth affects obesity, or whether obesity affects wealth. ×Ö´®3 However, the researchers also reviewed the people in the study who had a sudden increase in their wealth after receiving inheritances, and found no significant differences in their BMI scores in the following years. ×Ö´®5 This seems to suggest that wealth doesn't affect weight. ×Ö´®8 And from a "gut feel" perspective, it seems intuitive that it's probably weight that affects wealth. ×Ö´®8 Unfortunate as it is, obese women do tend to get discriminated against at work, and bring home a lower salary than their non-obese colleagues. ×Ö´®8 Plus, there are a number of health problems associated with obesity, and these obese women will have to fork out more money to tend to these problems. ×Ö´®5 In short, obese people make less, and spend more unnecessarily. With a double whammy like this, it's no wonder obese people will have more problems when it comes to increasing their wealth! ×Ö´®2 So, now that you've got a good incentive in front of you, please go and take immediate action to shed those unwanted weight... NOW. ×Ö´®5 Remember, as you make yourself slimmer, your wallet will grow fatter! ×Ö´®4
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