Wellness Programs in Malaysia and Insurance Plans

Wellness programs help in reducing the impact of lifestyle diseases. Obesity, Diabetes and Heart Disease are the most common lifestyle diseases. Stress is another cause of Heart Disease.

Obesity causes diabetes and heart disease . Diabetes can, and often results in blindness and loss of limbs (amputation).

A sedentary lifestyle with a high processed food diet causes obesity . A good wellness program moves the participant to improve their lifestyle in a group support setting.

The most common type of diabetes is type 2 diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is usually a result of taking too much rice, bread, noodles, sugared drinks, teh tarik, cookies, cakes, and kueh-muih, without actively burning off those calories.

You can calculate if you are normal, overweight or obese at this BMI calculation page.

If you are obese or severely unhealthy, no insurance company will likely cover you. As the risk of getting critical diseases is high. And the resulting cost of treatment will be early and very high.

The cost of medical treatment is always going up. The cost of living in blindness, without limbs and dependent on others to move, is also expensive.

A good wellness program in Malaysia will get you moving to healthier lifestyle . Which results in better future medical outcomes and an improved insurance risk profile.

The AIA Vitality Wellness Program in Malaysia helps by giving rewarding healthy behavior.

Your Garmin, Fitbit, diet programs and gyms like Fitness First help track and move you to burn off those calories. Get your rewards and discounts for these with AIA Vitality.

Stress can also cause heart disease. Gyms like Fitness First offer wellness programs like group yoga classes. Yoga can help focus and calm you down.