Living with Diabetes

Yoga & Diabetes

How can your body, and life insurance rates, benefit from practicing yoga daily? Having any type of diabetes, whether it’s type 1 or type 2, you know how important exercise can be for your overall health. Most doctors and endocrinologists do recommend a regular exercise program, to go along with your healthy eating habits. For some people, running on a treadmill, or lifting weights doesn’t excite them. Or maybe you don’t have time to drive to a local ‘spinning’ or aerobic class across town. One type of exercise that your body could benefit from is Yoga. And this is something [...]

2019-01-12T14:36:39+00:00 January 12th, 2019|
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Questions to Ask When Buying a Diabetes Life Insurance Policy

Original Post: May 27th, 2017 When you decide it’s time to purchase life insurance, you’ll probably have a few questions about coverage, policy types, and whether or not you’re likely to be approved for your desired policy. Having diabetes, you’ll want to ask even more questions, than a person who does not have a chronic illness. Asking these questions is extremely important. The outcome will determine your status of approval, your monthly premiums, and the extent of financial protection and preparedness that your family will receive in the event of a loss. Taking a proactive approach to alleviating what could [...]

2018-11-24T21:44:30+00:00 November 19th, 2018|
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Obtaining Life Insurance for Diabetics: Specifically on SGLT2 Inhibitors

Original Post: October 11th, 2018 Life insurance is hands down one of the most important decisions you will make in your lifetime. It will single handedly help to provide for your family’s financial future in the scenario that you’re no longer there to help support them. The problem with obtaining life insurance with Diabetes is there's a lot of bad information out there on the internet, or over your TV and Radio airwaves. Every commercial or website advertises rates that seem too good to be true, when it comes to diabetic life insurance. Truth is, the rates you hear about, [...]

2018-11-15T13:11:25+00:00 November 12th, 2018|
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Is Insulin Pump Therapy Better for Diabetic Life Insurance Rates?

Original Post: July 21, 2017 It’s no secret that anyone with a chronic health condition such as Diabetes, will inevitably – more than likely – end up paying a higher premium for their Diabetes life insurance policy than someone who is in predominantly perfect health. Most people don’t know that despite a chronic health diagnosis, it is possible to avoid excessively high premiums while maintaining a policy that is suitable for your family.  But how will a life insurance company view your use of an insulin pump? If you’ve been diagnosed with diabetes – even if you’re receiving insulin therapy [...]

2018-10-29T21:50:21+00:00 October 29th, 2018|
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The Costs of Diabetes Infographic

The costs of diabetes can be astronomical. Costs begin to pile up when you add on testing supplies, insulin and other medications, doctor visits, blood work and other lab tests, health insurance, life insurance, and more. Our friends at The Diabetes Council have created an infographic to outline the costs of diabetes. You can see the first part of the infographic below and find the full article here - The Costs of Diabetes.

2017-09-29T15:06:53+00:00 September 29th, 2017|
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Diabetes And Heart Attacks, Worse Than We Thought?

A recent study has shown that the link between diabetes and heart attacks could be worse than we originally thought. Sure, we’ve always known that being diabetic increases the chance of having cardiovascular complications like heart attacks, but most people don’t realize just how much diabetes impacts our hearts. The study was completed at the University of Leeds and was published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. The researchers looked at 700,000 people that went to the hospital for a heart attack between the years of 2003 and 2013. Looking at the data, the researchers found that 121,000 [...]

2017-03-30T14:23:14+00:00 February 9th, 2017|
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Sleep – Too Little Or Too Much – Bad Either Way

Some news out of the Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism has shed some new light on the connection between sleep and diabetes risk. The study published in the journal showed bad news for men that aren’t getting enough sleep and are sleeping too much. We already know that impact that sleep can have on a diabetic and getting enough sleep is important for your body. Sleep gives your body the time that it needs to recover from the day and gives it the energy it needs. Although we know the importance of sleep, the average number of [...]

2017-03-30T18:32:46+00:00 February 2nd, 2017|
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Diabetes in Adolescents Worse than we Thought

There has been some shocking news released in the Journal of the American Medical Association. We knew that diabetes in adolescents cases have been on the rise, but it could be worse than we initially thought in teenagers. A study was completed by Andy Menke, Ph.D., from Social & Scientific Systems and his study has shown daunting news to share with the diabetic community. Before the recent study, there were estimations that diabetes prevalence in teens in the United States was around 0.25%, but those estimations were way off. With the new information, experts are now suggesting that the real [...]

2017-03-30T14:42:19+00:00 January 25th, 2017|
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Looking for a New Way to Treat Diabetes Early

A new study out of Sanford-Burnham Presby Medical Discover Institute could have discovered a new way to improve insulin responsiveness and help treat diabetes earlier than before. The study that was released in the Journal of CLinicla Investigation has shown some exciting news for the diabetic community. One of the key traits that happen before type 2 diabetes is insulin resistance, which means insulin doesn’t cause the body’s cell to take the glucose from our foods. Because glucose continues to run through the blood, it promotes the pancreas to make more insulin, which eventually causes other insulin-producing cells to die. [...]

2017-03-30T16:40:09+00:00 January 4th, 2017|
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Over-Treating Diabetes Could Have Side Effects

We all know how critical it is to manage your glucose levels whether you have Type 1 Diabetes or Type 2 Diabetes. Not managing your diabetes could have extremely dangerous consequences like blindness, amputation, heart disease, or even death. But is there a chance that over-treating diabetes could have even worse effects? A recent study from the Mayo Clinic points that direction. Dr. Rozalina McCoy, a medical professional form the Mayo Clinic recently conducted a study that looked at over 30,000 diabetic adults and how they are treated to manage their diabetes. The researchers looked at which patients were treated [...]

2017-03-30T16:43:33+00:00 December 23rd, 2016|
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