by Ed Hinerman | Oct 10, 2007 | Biggest Loser, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, insurance, life insurance, obesity
A lot more weight loss this week. They did it while on vacation in Jamaica. Congratulations to all of them. I can tell you that I’ve certainly never lost weight on a tropical vacation. Again, the drama and game of the show is not my focus. Obesity carries some...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 8, 2007 | Biggest Loser, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, insurance, life insurance, obesity
Yes, I know I’m a week behind on tracking the Biggest Loser stats, and I promise to have all the new numbers posted before tomorrow’s show. I have been attempting to reach someone connected to the NBC Biggest Loser reality weight loss show concerning their...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 7, 2007 | cancer, diabetes, heart disease, insurance, life insurance, obesity
I met a guy in Hatch, Ut the other day along our way to Bryce and Zion National Parks. He had a compelling story to tell about beating obesity and how it saved his life. He had lived most of his life in Branson, MO and about five years ago had decided to end annual...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 1, 2007 | diabetes, high blood pressure, insurance, life insurance, obesity
In my work with people who are diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, there have been many times that they have been able to get the condition under control with diet and exercise. Sometimes they start with medication, but eventually the good forces of a healthy diet and...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 27, 2007 | diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, insurance, life insurance, obesity
I’ve been following NBC’s reality weight loss show Biggest Loser from a life insurance and health education view point. This had to be a tough week psychologically on the participant’s, as there was a lot of hard work going on and very few dropped...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 25, 2007 | cholesterol, coronary artery disease (CAD), diabetes, heart attack, heart disease, obesity
In a few previous posts I had discussed the heart imaging test called an Ultra Fast CT scan. Touted by those who own the machines as the best early warning device for coronary artery disease, the machines and the tests have also had a multitude of critics due to the...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 24, 2007 | cancer, diabetes, heart disease, insurance, life insurance, obesity, Type 2 diabetes
I remember as a child that I ran my parents ragged trying to keep up with me. I had feet and legs in good operating order, a bike whose operating order was questionable, and a passion to be busy from daylight to bedtime. I wore my parents out just trying to keep tabs...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 23, 2007 | Biggest Loser, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, insurance, life insurance, obesity
I attempted to share some of my thoughts on obesity and health issues, and how NBC was in a unique position to speak to the problem with their huge audience for semi-reality show Biggest Loser. I attempted to comment on Ali’s blog. Alison Sweeny is apparently a...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 19, 2007 | Biggest Loser, insurance, life insurance, obesity
As discussed in my first post for Biggest Loser, NBC’s reality weight loss show, from a life insurance perspective, there is more to the picture than just weight. Life insurance rates are based on mortality assumptions, how long a person might expect to live....
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 18, 2007 | diabetes, Fat March, high blood pressure, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, obesity
In a series of blogs I followed an ABC reality show called Fat March. One of the participants on that show, Loralie, was there for the express purpose of losing weight because she and her husband wanted to have a baby. At 241 pounds when she started, her doctor...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 17, 2007 | cholesterol, diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, insurance, life insurance, obesity
There is a commercial on TV that, while selling a drug for the treatment of high cholesterol or high LDL, makes a good point about the genetic link to problems with cholesterol. The commercial has several witty little lines like, “Is your cholesterol affected by...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 15, 2007 | diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, hypertension, insurance, life insurance, obesity, stroke
When we think about high blood pressure, hypertension, generally our thoughts don’t drift to children. I was trying to think back through family and friends and remember if I had ever known a child treated for blood pressure and I came up empty. With obesity in...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 14, 2007 | Fat March, insurance, life insurance, obesity
Completing my interview of Will Millender, my hope is that his thoughts on obesity and it’s impact on life will help foster further discussion about the problem and how life insurance underwriters view it. Question: We met through a blog about life insurance and...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 14, 2007 | Fat March, insurance, life insurance, obesity
Continuing on with my interview of Will Millender, my hope is that his thoughts on obesity and it’s impact on life will help foster further discussion about the problem and how life insurance underwriters view it. Question: There is an epidemic of obesity today....
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 14, 2007 | Fat March, insurance, life insurance, obesity
After completing my series of blogs on the reality show Fat March and the reality of how weight and weight loss can affect life insurance rates, I had the pleasure of getting to know and interviewing one of the participants, Will Millender. Over the next 3 posts I...
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