Healthy money habits A fit mind and body are key to saving money Michael DOLLARS AND SENSE ASK PETER Hanson how much money you can save by living a more healtiy life arid he’s likely to reply: “How much would you iike to save?” Whether depression, inflation or normal times lie ahead, you'll cope better if both your body and budget stay healthy. “Go past the filet mignon and the fish in the supermarket which are among the most expensive items, and load up instead on potatoes, rice » and pasta, which are some of the cheapest things,” he said in. an inter- view, “Skip the dairy counter and the snack foods. Pick up fruit and vegetables instead. “Then count your savings at the checkout.” Hanson, 2 47-year-old medical ‘doctor and the author of Tie Joy of Stress (which has sold more than a million copies) and Stress for Success, was on tour to promote his latest book, Counter-Attack! The Joy of Stress Action Plan for Gaining Control of Your Life and Health (Stoddart, $22.95). In a section entitled “The Grocery Store: How to Save Over “$300 an Hour,” he tells how the smart shopper outraces the high-fat also-rans and ends up with a grocery .. bill of $130 compared to $250 — “that’s first-prize money of $120 for just over 20 minutes’ work.” When he and his family — wife Sharilyn, 40, Kimberley, !2, Trevor. 10, and Kelly, 5 — order hamburg- ers, Hanson said: “We get them to hold the mayo, meat and cheese, but load up on the lettuce, tomatoes and pickles. You'll be surprised how lit- tle you are sometimes charged.” Pizza? “Hold the meat, anchovies and cheese, load it up with everything else and double the tomato sauce so the vegetables will stay on.” When you order Chinese food, pick the vegetarian dishes — they're always the cheapest. Hanson suggested aiming for [8 sensible meals out of 21 each week. “We sometimes declare salmon an honorary vegetable,” he said, “but think how much we save by having pasta dishes several nights a week instead of having to buy pork chops and other cuts of meat for a family of five.” Noting that fat is addictive — “you can't sat just onc potato chip” ~—- but admidiing we don’t know the specific interaction of fat with orain cells, Hanson said the apparent anomaly of healthy French people living on a diet high of cheese and wine is easily explained. “Yn the 30 or so years after the Second World War, the French actually ate halt the fat we dich Wait another 30 years for their prescit, eating habits to catch up with them and they’! have the same problems we have.” : Depending on the distances from 66 Go past the filet mignon and the fish, and load up instead on potatoes, rice and pasta. 9? work, school and so on, cut trans- portation costs by selling one, or both, of your cars and substituting a bike, public wansportation and per- haps the occasional cab. That will save additional thousands of dollars over the years, “When you do drive, park as far as passibie from the store to make yourself get some excercise,” Hanson said, “You'll always find a spot and you won’t get as many dents in your door.” Staying healthy obviously pays off, he said. “You'll cut your over- the-counter and prescription drug costs (and) you'll have less unpaid time off if you are self-employed. “If you're an employee with good food and health habits, you'll be more alert and productive than people with poor habits; which means you are more likely to keep your job and income if the company downsizes.” Hanson has certainly tured his specialty into a profitable occupa- tion. Over the years, he has given more than 1,000 speeches on three continents — he now gets US$7,500 for a one-hour talk. His family left Vancouver when he was 12 and moved lo Moose | Jaw, Montreal, Calgary and finally Toronto because of his father’s job: cloth interior &*. sO much more. 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