Hedonic Inflation in the Bathroom

[enigmaT120]

Yeah, I would like that chart extended farther to the left as well. There has to be a point at which it starts going back up, and probably very fast. Still a great chart, I'd never seen that one before. The costs are so high. Are insurance premiums included? There are probably a few in each BMI category that need the bulk of the health care, with many more on the lower ends to counterbalance them.

My health care costs must be higher than 7wb5's, as I get my teeth cleaned twice a year, purchase hay fever medicine, and generally visit my chiropractor and massage therapist once or twice a year. And need glasses.

[Ego]

The chart is taken from this study.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 142222.htm

[7Wannabe5]

I said: my hedonic inflationary contribution to their continuing heart health
BRUTE said: 70% max heart rate or more the HIIT stuff?

Well, obviously, I am referencing the results of this and related studies.

A report from the Massachusetts Male Aging Study agrees that sex may be protective. The subjects were men between 40 and 70 who were randomly selected residents of the Boston area. A total of 1,165 men were eligible for the study and agreed to participate. None of the men had cardiovascular disease when they enrolled in the 17-year study; 213 of the men had erectile dysfunction and were analyzed separately. Among the 952 men with intact erectile function, men who had sex once a month or less were 45% more likely to develop cardiovascular disease than the men who had sex two or more times a week. The link between sexual activity and cardiac health was not explained by conventional cardiac risk factors or a man’s satisfaction with his relationships.

Since, as the article Ego posted made clear, the greatest increases in medical expenses due to increasing BMI are related to cardio-vascular disease, the fact is that I am donating my time and the midlife remnants of my feminine energy to an activity likely to decrease the medical expenses of up to 3 other individuals by roughly (.8) (1.45) ($3500) = $12,180 /year !!! AND, even if I had not presented clear evidence of other mediating factors of my likely future expense due to BMI, such as the fact that my waist-to-hip ratio is in the excellent range even for a much younger woman, and the World Health Organization is on record that this is a more relevant measure than BMI because of the importance of visceral vs. subcutaneous fat, and my mother, who is the only non-smoker, light drinker, heavy eater (similar shape but MUCH higher BMI than me) in my family tree, at age 76 shows zero sign of either diabetes or cardiovascular illness, my yearly increased burden on societal health care expenses would only be approximately $400. Thus, my personal behavior is consistent with a net societal decrease in health care costs of AT LEAST $11,780/year!!!

In fact, there is pretty compelling evidence that the effects of my behavior go even further than this. For instance, because the Peacemaker's wife has now banned him from engaging in some categories of heart healthy activity with me, the two of us went on a group bike ride together this week. The Peacemaker's wife can't go on a long bike ride with him because her legs hurt, she is too heavy and she smokes, but because she knew he was biking with me, she made an appointment with her doctor to find out what is wrong with her legs.

One of the things I always think about is whether or not something is arbitrary. I think it is arbitrary that when many people think about getting back into shape or maintaining fitness, they go right to something like "Run X miles in Y time." , so then everybody ends up trying to do the same thing and that is so boring to me. I think it is more interesting if some people try to do other things like "Dig 18 X12X1 pit in urban hardcore soil using only hand tools" or "Have sex every day." or "Feed self out of dumpster."

[BRUTE]

everything is arbitrary.

brute is going to call it "heart healthy activity" from now on

[Ego]

Why we love luxury items
http://www.thebookoflife.org/why-we-con ... ve-things/

This issue needs to be addressed urgently because it’s remarkably stressful to live in a society where luxury seems like a necessary route to a good life. The implicit philosophy of luxury goods is that the ingredients of fulfilment lie considerably outside an ordinary salary; which condemns a huge section of society to feelings of incompleteness.

[saving-10-years]

The economics of renting a study bedroom for a student in HE in the UK is something like this ... (2016 figures)

£5000 p.a. for a single study bedroom with a shared bathroom. Hand basin in the room and bathroom shared between 3-4 students within the same flat (2-3 bathrooms per flat) and cleaned daily by college cleaning staff.

£5400 p.a. for a single study bedroom with an en suite bathroom. This incorporates a compact bathroom within the room size, so less space for study and bedroom. Bathroom cleaned by cleaning staff once a week.

This is a £10 surcharge per week and apparently en suite rooms (which are the majority of rooms in the college that DS will attend) are likely to be insufficient to meet supply. Good thing that he is going the economy route.

Whatever happened to students sharing bedrooms (let alone bathrooms)?

[heyhey]

Couldn't you get a house share for less? Students don't have to live in university accommodation. But you may be talking about London, in which case that's probably not beatable

[saving-10-years]

@HeyHey, after first year that will be what he most likely does, but its a campus based uni so being there the first year means he can make friends to share with after that. This is the cheapest type of room on his campus, he could opt for a kitchenette instead of sharing (i.e. be totally antisocial) and then pay London prices (over £8k) for a single room 'studio'. I was pointing out that he can save £400 and get more room space just by not having an en suite.

Definitely glad that he is not going South for his Uni ed. That will help him a lot (not only during university years but afterwards if he develops links to the place).