Health care is another expense that can wipe out a family’s savings, even if they have health insurance. Middle age is when conditions like type 2 diabetes are most likely to be diagnosed.50 According to the National Institutes of Health, chronic pain disorders, like TMJ, are more common in women, and strokes happen more often to middle-aged women than to middle-aged men.51 Our risk of getting breast cancer in our thirties is 1 in 227. In our forties: 1 in 68. In our fifties it is 1 in 42.52
