8 Ways to Lose Weight on Pennies a Day
There's a weird inverse relationship between our wallets and our bellies. The smaller one gets, the larger the other seems to grow. It's a vicious cycle When we're low on cash, we gravitate to cheaper food. And the cheapest food is also the most heavily-processedchips, cookies, crackers. That leads to weight gain in three ways Processed foods are packed with fat and sugar they lack fiber or other nutrients and our bodies burn only about half as many calories digesting them as we burn when we eat whole foods, according to a study in Food Nutrition Research. But in the long run, cheap food doesn't save us any money A Duke University study that looked at 17,000 of its employees found that for every one-unit uptick in body mass index BMI, a person's medical costs increased by 4 percent and his drug costs by 2 percent. Their heaviest employees spent an extra 8,000 a year!, But if money is tight, how might you go about losing the weight while you're waiting for that green to show up? Fortunately, not every slim-down plan requires an expensive gym membership, a personal nutritionist, or a 70-a-day juice cleanse. The staff of Eat This, Not That! magazine identified 8 secret weight loss tricks that will save you moneyand calories.