What's your price for unlimited food??

Ok fun hypothetical thread.

If there was a pill that you could buy and from that point on till your life is up you could eat whatever you wanted as much as you wanted and you would not put on weight or have any negative health effects from the food whatsoever.


Assuming you'd want one, what would be the maximum price your willing to pay for that pill based on your current real finances. And which foods pushed you over the edge to folk out the money??

For me it's nothing fancy just plain ol pizza and chips..I love pizza, can eat it any time of the day/night and never get sick of it.

I'd be willing to splurge 400k.

Anyone else want that pill??

 

Slightly different answer to your question. I have a friend. She's 65. Very active though. She'll rockclimb, canyon, unicycle, do very difficult bushwalks... She's strong (if you ever do a canyon you have to carry a quite heavy backpack) yet skinny as a rake cause she has some food intolerances and can't eat much.
Doesn't seem particularly unhappy about it. She easily feels the cold though. Great lady, she's got an awesome husband too, she can speak more than 1 language and play a violin too. (And even while on a unicycle).

I'd have no issues if I was her, or if I were just like her at 65, i'd be laughing!!

 

Pizza me too. I remember back in NY I got addicted to their giant slices and was pretty much washing it down with coke every damn meal. I was a little disgusted in myself but just couldn't stop.

 

What are you willing to pay for that pill?

 

Are you sure you read the original post?? No relation at all to the original question....

 

We talking unlimited supply here or does the pill just enable you to eat without the negative health effects (but you still need to purchase the food)? I think you meant the former so I'm going to say $4k lol


edit no you meant the latter. Forgive me, I probably had 4 hrs sleep last night. I'd have to calculate my annual food spend and work it out as a percentage. Over a lifetime it would be in the hundreds of thousands.

Let's see Pizza 4 times a week at say $20 ($4,160 per year = $124,800 over 30 years not inflation adjusted=bargain)

 

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You can eat any food, as much as you want. No health implications. You have to pay for it of course.



Lol yeah I know...I got too much time on my hands

 

Not sure,i was reading in the British Heart Foundation ,cardiovascular disease kills 460 each and every day in the ''UK''..In Australia it's maybe 76 deaths per day..Then you look at heart attacks strokes after reading --JACC-
- in the USA as the numbers are higher..
So once one looks at those numbers ''IF'' there was a ''Pill'' then it would be a massive help to mankind ,the only problem would be the cost and who would be able to afford the costs,just wondering if ''Gates Ag One'' would target something like this..
Myself i would say no..imho..

 

$10.000. But mostly because of the health protection not so much the ability to eat junk food to excess.

I’m a healthy eater and not overweight. But I do limit my intake of cheese and eggs, ice cream and butter - in the interests of heart health. I would like a bit more butter!

If there was such a pill, it would be worth a lot to the health system - just in terms of getting rid of obesity and heart disease.

 

It's a hypothetical!!!!

 

@Sackie does the pill extend the same protections to Wine and beer ?

 

absolutely

All food and drink.

 

That's a great point!

 

Imagine the economic stimulus from this!

 

I wouldn't bet against a pill like this has already been created. Let's be honest, if it was it would never be allowed to be produced. Insurance company's would go broke... and that would only be the start...

 

The health industry does not want to be rid of these diseases. They make way too much money from it.

 

It looks like most have missed the question all together.
For me that would be worth a lot. Love to eat, yet very conscious of what I eat in an attempt to stay in shape and keep healthy.
Well over $500k. Maybe even up to $1mill.
Do I have to buy one of those pills for the Mrs as well?

 

@Sackie I would pay a lot of money for something like this, especially as I have health issues & have to be very strict with my diet and avoid most carbohydrates.

While I've never been a big eater, I do have a sweet tooth, and sadly can no longer indulge. I'd love to eat bread, have a nice desert, or even a nice meal out without interrogating the wait staff on ingredients, and asking them to remove X, Y & Z from the meal.

 

Ok.. $250k sounds reasonable then I reckon...perhaps more!

Sydney rock oysters from Pambula, Wagyu tartare, Dry aged Sirloin on the bone, washed down with some Grosset Polish hill Riesling, a great Geelong Pinot (By Farr) and say Standish Shiraz respectively. We’d need to finish with some cheese of course...and a Graham’s 10 yo Port.

So yes, clearly that money will be well spent - from a long term health angle !