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 exercise
- Can childhood obesity impact life insurance rates in the future?
- Date posted: February 10th, 2011 3:03 PM
- Obesity among America’s youth is a growing epidemic with long-term ramifications for both the health and financial futures of those affected.
An estimated 17 percent of children and adolescents ages 2 to 19 are considered obese, according to the 2007-2008 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the last year for which statistics are available. That is about triple the rate from just one generation ago.
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- Category: Featured Articles, Life Insurance, Videos
- Tags: bariatric procedure, body mass index, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, childhood obesity, classification, diabetes, diet, exercise, expert advice, financial health, health, healthy lifestyle, high cost, life insurance, long-term effects, medication, National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, physical health, premiums, risks, sickness, statistics, The Hartford, underwriting
- A few tweaks could help travelers stay in shape
- Date posted: January 17th, 2011 2:02 PM
- While the benefits of staying fit - including lower medical and life insurance costs - are well-known, it can still be difficult for people who are constantly on the road or in the air to keep up with an exercise regimen. Fortunately, health website FitnessGoop offers some helpful tips for frequent travelers.Full Story »
- Category: Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Videos
- Tags: activity levels, body awareness, diet, exercise, FitnessGoop, frequent travelers, health tips, healthy eating, healthy traveling, nutrition
- Study finds connection between walking and lower diabetes risk
- Date posted: January 17th, 2011 4:04 AM
- People who walk more may lower their risk of diabetes, according to a recent study in the British Medical Journal.
Researchers studied 592 middle-aged adults for five years, giving them health tests and surveying them about their nutrition habits and then providing them with pedometers to track their steps.Full Story »
- Category: Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Videos
- Tags: activity levels, body mass index, British Medical Journal, exercise, health, health insurance, life insurance, pedometers, prevention, recommendations, risk factors, walking, wellness
- Physical activity lowers male mortality rates from all causes
- Date posted: January 6th, 2011 5:05 PM
- Men who routinely get significant amounts of strenuous exercise are less likely than their more indolent counterparts to die early, scientists from the Harvard School of Public Health say.
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- Category: Life Insurance, Tips, Videos
- Tags: active lifestyle, clinical findings, evidence, exercise, Harvard School of Public Health, health insurance, Health Professionals Follow-Up Study, Journal of Clinical Oncology, lifestyle, men, morbidity, mortality, prevention, prostate cancer, risk of death, wellness
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