This is Motleyful Answers. I'm Alison Southwick, and I'm joined as always by Robert Running Down a Dream BroCamp.

Happy New Year, bro.

And to you as well, and a belated happy birthday, Allison, December 26th.

Thank you for remembering, yeah, Boxing Day baby here.

So today we're going to talk about how investing in health and investing in your health is the path to wealth.

All that and more on this week's episode of Molly Full Answers.

So, bro, what's up?

Well, Allison, as you said, we're going to talk about health stocks later in the episode.

And so timely since it's a new

year. And if you're inclined towards resolutions, chances are they include something about health or wealth or both.

And so I have good news for you because you can kill two goals with one stone or something like that.

Because the evidence is clear that healthier people are wealthier people

and vice versa. So here's just one example of the evidence. It's from a 2018 Washington Post article

by Christopher Ingram, and he looked at the federal guidelines for exercise, which are

that adults should perform at least 150 minutes of moderate physical activity

or 75 minutes of vigorous physical activity each week.

And they should also do some like muscle strengthening stuff like calisthenics or lifting weights twice a week.

What he found was that the states with the lowest percentage of adults who met that criteria

also tended to have lower median incomes, with the lowest being Mississippi.

And the states with the higher percentages of adults who exercise, they had higher median incomes

with the highest being, want to take a guess?

What's the fittest state, do you think?

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