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A Family Health Portrait

It may be impossible to fully appreciate the impact our parents have on us... until the first time you’re told that you “sound like your mother” (or father).

Our families shape everything from our diction to dining preferences, from our humor to our habits. But perhaps even more significantly, they shape our health, or at least provide some clues as to what we could encounter in our lives.

Ask yourself, do you know — completely and accurately — your family’s health history? Have you looked into those specific diseases that affected your mother, father, aunt or uncle? Have you considered how their experiences may apply to you now and in the future?

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