“Eat your veggies.”
If you just had flashbacks to your childhood where your mom is standing over you wagging her finger. Parents have tried for years to bribe, trick or beg their children to eat vegetables. Their efforts have even been immortalized on television in Veggie Tales, a show about animated vegetables who go on adventures and teach a moral, spiritual message.
Now that you are an adult, the message about eating your greens still might not have sunk in. But long gone are the days of nibbling on a flavorless celery stick. You can add veggies to any dish to bring out the flavor and get some of the added health benefits. Toss in some celery, crushed tomatoes, onion and garlic for an amazing homemade spaghetti sauce. Or
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Really bad news, actually.
Because some faceless Eurocrats are planning to make womens car insurance much, much more expensive.
Currently insurers are granted an exclusion from sexual equality legislation that would otherwise prohibit discrimination between genders. The restrictions are very tight, the insurance company has to prove actuarily (using statistics) that women represent a lesser risk (or vice versa). This is true not just for car insurance products, but also for things like life assurance, because women live longer, on average.
For most motoring risks, women represent a much safer bet for the insurance industry, as the average expenditure on claims from women is very significantly less.
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Everyone who has ever played the Gran Turismo or Forza Motorsport games must have wondered whether their console racing skills would translate onto a real track. And while track days have become more and more popular in recent years (which is why we have an all new track day insurance add-on available to our customers), the problem is that few of us have the kind of high-end cars that match the in-game experience, and in any case, you aren’t permitted to actually race.
Serious motorsport is the preserve of the wealthy elite, which means that the closest most of us will get, is a session at the local karting track.
So I was quite surprised to discover that Nissan, Sony and Channel 4 have clearly thought about this, and that Channel 4 has been showing a programme called GT Academy – where some of the countries top Gran Turismo players have been put into real race cars with the chance to win a drive in the European GT4 Championship.
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As a young, healthy adult, it might not seem cost effective to be funneling your hard-earned money into paying for health insurance coverage that you don’t even need. If you are healthy enough to not need to run to the doctor for every sniffle, and you do not want to pay for the chance that you might have to run to the doctor, then catastrophic health insurance could be for you.
Catastrophic health insurance is also known as higher deductible insurance or major medical emergency insurance. The idea behind it is a trade-off between a higher deductible for a lower monthly premium. A deductible is the amount you (the policy holder) must pay out-of-pocket before your health insurance provider would kick in and start covering the costs. P
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As the new academic year begins, insurance for students should be a key concern for young adults protecting their own belongings for the first time.
Student insurance may be less exciting than freshers’ week parties and choosing modules for the coming term. Living on a shoestring is a standard feature of student life, both for undergraduates and for those returning to university having already gained a degree.
But with new figures suggesting that almost £2 billion of students’ possessions are unprotected against theft or damage, young adults would do well to take some time to ensure they do not leave themselves with a hefty replacement bill.
Student Insurance is Necessary
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You may well have seen our previous post about the Volvo S60′s numerous safety features, and their ignominious failure to detect a truck, as intended.
Volvo blamed that on a flat battery, and must have been hoping to move on at their latest press demonstration, as the Swedish carmaker paraded the car’s advanced pedestrian detection system to Australian journalists in, er, Italy.
And this is what actually happened: 
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