Hi everybody this is this is Monica Reinagal and you're listening to

the nutrition diva quick and dirty tips for eating well and feeling fabulous.

Today's quick and dirty nutrition tip is that for eating well and feeling fabulous.

Today's quick and dirty nutrition tip

is that what you do now every day

will have a big impact on how you will look

and feel years from now when you're older. The other day I was listening to the Money Girl,

which is another great show in the quick and dirty network. And on this particular show,

Money Girl and her guest Andrew Horowitz, who has a podcast called the

disciplined investor. We're talking about buying insurance to ensure that

you'll have enough money to pay for any long-term health care that you might need

when you get older. This type of care, unfortunately, can be super expensive

and it's usually not covered by regular health insurance. Frankly, this kind of thing keeps me up at night.

I'm relatively young and healthy and I'm saving for the future,

but we're all living a lot longer than we used to, and while that's generally a good thing,

it also means that we are much more likely to run out of savings just as our health starts to fall apart in very expensive ways.

So Money Girl and the disciplined investor had some great tips on how to plan for your future.

And if you don't have a plan, I highly recommend that you listen to this episode.

But while I was listening, it got me thinking about a very different type of long-term health insurance.

I'm talking about the stuff we can all do now

to increase our chances of being healthy and therefore wealthy when we're older.

That's a type of health insurance we can all afford. Of course I know that there are no

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