by Ed Hinerman | Nov 1, 2007 | insurance, life insurance, obesity, term insurance
For those that do read my blog, you might be thinking that I’ve made it my mission in life to point out everything wrong with obesity. And to some extent I have. But I hope the reason isn’t lost in all of the information I provide. I care deeply about...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 1, 2007 | insurance, life insurance, obesity
I’m bad when I go on vacation. Depending on where I go and what they have to eat and drink, I can gain 8-10 pounds pretty handily while I am relaxing. Hand in hand with the food and drink is that, in spite of my best intentions, I rarely exercise regularly while...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 31, 2007 | cancer, heart disease, high blood pressure, insurance, life insurance, obesity, prostate cancer
Well, let’s just roll two of my top topics into one blog and see if we can bring a little common sense to bear on the causes of cancer. If a poll was taken and people were asked to name the leading causes of heart disease and cancer, I suspect (because it would...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 31, 2007 | business life insurance, insurance, life insurance, term insurance
A what you say? To put in more meaningful terms, if your employer died today, would the company continue to exist? Is there a plan in place to keep the business going? If not, is there a plan in place to soften the economic impact on employees, especially key...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 30, 2007 | breast cancer, cancer, insurance, life insurance
Over the years I have talked with more than one woman who, when face with a breast cancer treatment decision, chose to have a double mastectomy. Their reasoning always revolved around completing removing the chance for a recurrence. In an article I read today, the...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 30, 2007 | business life insurance, children's life insurance, guaranteed issue life insurance, insurance, life insurance, term insurance, universal life, whole life
I had an email from a potential client today that said “I am looking for reasonably priced life insurance where there are no health questions and/or physical exam. If your group can fullfill these requirements than you can contact me”. There are a lot of...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 30, 2007 | cholesterol, heart disease, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance
What if your father died at age 52 of a heart attack? He was overweight. He smoked and led a sedentary lifestyle. He simply didn’t do anything to take care of himself and appears to have paid the price. Now there is you. Never smoked. Never drank. You get plenty...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 29, 2007 | Anxiety, insurance, life insurance, obesity
We talk all the time about how losing control of one part of your health inevitably has a compounding effect on other areas of your health. Stress, or anxiety, is certainly not an exception to that rule. In a recent post we talked about how some amount of stress,...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 29, 2007 | breast cancer, cancer, insurance, life insurance, prostate cancer
I hope in previous posts I have made it abundantly clear that smoking cigarettes and looking for low life insurance rates is an oxymoronic walk in which you can’t get there from here. I have also gone on a bit about the reasons that life insurance underwriters...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 28, 2007 | diabetes, heart attack, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, prostate cancer
Mitral valve prolapse sounds a little ominous, and to see the knee jerk reaction some life insurance companies have when they underwrite it, you would swear it was right up there with heart attacks. Not so. Mitral valve prolapse is simply a slight thickening in one of...
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