Your health can definitely have an impact on your finances.  For example, I recently wrote about how losing 10 pounds can save you thousands of dollars on your life insurance.  So, even though it’s not directly about personal finance, I recommend taking a look at Your Disease Risk, a site developed by the Harvard Center [...]

read more from this topic.....

In a way, that’s the situation I face. I was recently shopping for term life insurance. For me, on a 20-year term life insurance policy the difference between the Preferred1 (cheapest rate) and Preferred2 rates was $100 a year. When I clicked on the underwriting guidelines for the policy, it spelled out [...]

read more from this topic.....