How Obesity Affects Life Insurance

September 7, 2009
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United States is considered as one of the world’s most overweight nations and over 50 million of Americans are medically obese. People in this condition shorten their life expectancy and increase the probability of acquiring a disease. More than that, obese people are putting themselves in double jeopardy. As they spend more money on medical bills and prescription drugs, they have less chance of getting a better term life insurance rates.

Insurance quotes are calculated on the basis of a number of factors that will eventually affect your life span. Being overweight has a direct link with your health and can therefore affect your term life insurance rates. The longer their…