Sugar-Free Diet Linked to Metabolic Changes “Completely removing sucrose from a low-fat diet may unexpectedly disrupt gut health and promote inflammation and metabolic dysfunction, highlighting that balanced nutrition is more important than simply eliminating sugar,” said Rasheed Ahmad, Ph.D., principal scientist and head of the Immunology & Microbiology Department at the Dasman Diabetes Institute, in […]
I seriously wonder if there are any original recipes out there. You think to yourself “Let’s make a black bean and corn thing tonight”. So you do what everyone else does and hop on the internet to find numerous recipes that are pretty much the same. Full Disclosure: This recipe is a copycat and my […]
Interesting insights from the oldest of the old. All charts are from the survey report which can downloaded here: https://www.uhc.com/content/dam/uhcdotcom/en/general/100-at-100-Final-Report-Aug2025.pdf
I was in St. Louis on business. One day these things showed up at the office. I had one (OK, two) after breakfast. Yes, they are that good. Memo to Self – Don’t get depressed that you only learned about this delicacy in your 7th decade. I wonder if they deliver to Oklahoma.
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OK, before I even read the article, I’m going to guess Alabama and Mississippi.
I don’t know how to read the table. Do they take into consideration the population of the state?
Keep in mind what you are looking at are Actuarial numbers. Based on historical data insurance companies assume a certain number of deaths (expected). Then the true number of deaths are reported (actual). The resultant ratio is what we call actual to expected or A/E. The expected number is included in life insurance pricing models. So if the actual is lower than expected, the company makes money and if higher, losses happen. Of course there are many other factor that enter into product pricing. The answer to your question is probably yes. But I’m not an actuary.
Got it. On another note, insurance related, do you think health insurance companies will ever charge a higher premium to people who choose not to receive the Covid vaccine?
Already happening. I had to show proof of SARS-CoV-2 vaccinations to receive a “discount” on my employer provided health insurance premium. For those of us paying attention, the premium for 2022 is the same as it was for 2021. For employees who choose to be unvaccinated their premiums are higher.
I hope all insurance companies will do this. And I think it should be a substantial surcharge. I’m sick and tired of paying people’s hospital expenses for a preventable disease.
I suspect most if not all will add surcharges. At the present the premium increases are in the health insurance realm. Life insurance is different and may head in the same direction much as the industry did years ago by charging less for non-smokers and more for users of the weed.