by Ed Hinerman | Nov 30, 2007 | cancer, diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, insurance, life insurance, obesity
I bet you thought you would never see the day when I had good news to report on obesity in America. Having harped on how America’s obesity has steadily increased for the last 25 years, how it is changing the health and lives of the country through diabetes,...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 29, 2007 | cancer, diabetes, life insurance, obesity, prostate cancer
It is a statistical fact, and certainly no secret, that African American men continue to take more of a beating from prostate cancer than men from any other ethnic background in this country. They are more likely to get prostate cancer. They are less likely to detect...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 28, 2007 | diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, insurance, life insurance, obesity
I know at times it seems that my agenda is more focused on obesity than helping people who are overweight find affordable life insurance. My goal has always been to help people with weight issues become educated on how life insurance underwriters look at obesity which...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 27, 2007 | diabetes, insurance, life insurance
There are days when you think things just can’t get any more ridiculous. That would not be in the world of advocacy groups. Webster defines advocate as “one that supports or promotes the interests of another”. Today one advocacy group advocated...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 21, 2007 | children's life insurance, diabetes, insurance, life insurance, Type 1 diabetes, Type 2 diabetes
Some time ago I started on a quest to find out the facts about mortality experience of children with type 1 diabetes. The issue I had initially run into was that insurance companies simply would not offer life insurance to children with type 1 diabetes, almost across...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 20, 2007 | diabetes, heart disease, insurance, life insurance, obesity
The beat to death mantra of needing to get out and exercise 30 minutes at least 5 days a week to prevent our demise due to sedentary life styles is accurate, but without much effort we can do a lot more. Consider this in our battle with obesity, heart disease and...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 19, 2007 | diabetes, insurance, life insurance, Type 1 diabetes
I know that I’ve often heard that the big drug companies really don’t want to find cures for things such as diabetes and it always leaves me shaking my head. Their purported reason for avoiding the cure is that a cure would kill the cash cow they have in...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 19, 2007 | diabetes, heart disease, insurance, life insurance, obesity, Type 1 diabetes, Type 2 diabetes
All things being equal, underwriting type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes really hinge on the same issues. So, why is it that type 1 seems to incur a heavier hit than type 2? Remember that with type 2 diabetes, underwriting focuses on age of onset, control and other...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 16, 2007 | diabetes, insurance, life insurance, Type 1 diabetes
After a season of disappointment in weight loss reality TV shows, where the tactics took precedence over health, it is refreshing to see someone with a worldwide audience willing to talk about diabetes health issues. Not that ABC or NBC should gear themselves to meet...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 15, 2007 | diabetes, insurance, life insurance, Type 1 diabetes, Type 2 diabetes
Today is World Diabetes Day. There isn’t a lot I can add to a subject that I post on regularly but to say that anything that can bring more attention and focus to the size and scope of the diabetes problem, is a good thing. Bottom line. Type 1 diabetes and type...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 14, 2007 | coronary artery disease (CAD), diabetes, heart attack, insurance, life insurance, Type 2 diabetes
In a post a few months ago I had mentioned the concern over studies that showed a potential link between the diabetes drug Avandia and heart attacks. Well, the FDA boldly stepped out and muddied the waters today in a way that only a government agency can do. There are...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 13, 2007 | diabetes, insurance, life insurance, Type 1 diabetes
Type 1 diabetes is a disease that can potentially carry a lot of long term health baggage with it. One of the exacerbating issues is that it generally strikes young, usually children or teenagers, who then are faced with a lifetime of controlling their diabetes or...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 8, 2007 | Depression, diabetes, high blood pressure, hypertension, insurance, life insurance, obesity, Type 2 diabetes
It seems sometimes that the world is kind of teetering on the edge, kind of an unnerving feeling. I thinks for kids this is especially problematic since they have yet to develop coping mechanisms and probably don’t really have a grasp on just how crazy our world...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 7, 2007 | diabetes, heart attack, insurance, life insurance, Type 2 diabetes
One of the hard facts is that people with type 2 diabetes are at a higher risk of heart disease and heart attacks than the average person. There has been growing concern among physicians that some of the medications used to control type 2 diabetes might also...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 5, 2007 | diabetes, insurance, life insurance
Some days I think I’m the only person on the planet that has yet to do a study or a survey. I’m not talking about participating in one, but actually creating and compiling the data. Some seem a bit more credible than others. One I read today came to kind...
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