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Loose weight, lower your premiums (Part 2)

Avatar — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:45:19 +0000

Actual survey of insurance premium prices show that if a person is found to be 20 to 30 pounds overweight can get life insurance but at not so preferred rates due to their being more of a liability than regular people. The economic implications for everyday life are also quite unexpected for an overweight person consumes more fuel when traveling in a vehicle thus ending with more fuel costs. In industries such as the airline business, special rates are asked of overweight people for the additional weight that goes over their average for specific pricing brackets. So choose to loose weight and lower your premium payments, it can also prolong your life.

Loose weight, lower your premiums (Part 1)

Avatar — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:42:43 +0000

A study by the American Obesity Association conducted in Washington DC shows that for that area more than 25% of all men and 40% of all women are obese. The figure is not so good for considering the implication on a nationwide scale and the numbers would multiply exponentially. Now what does this have to do with your life insurance? Well people who are obese are more prone to health problems and they in turn have to pay more for their life insurance policies due to their being high-risk persons. Last year alone, $30 billion dollars was spent by the American public in efforts to loose weight or maintain their ideal weight which shows how critical the problem is.