Think about the risk factors for chronic diseases

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Topic 1. Why do you think that the leading killers of Americans shifted from infectious diseases to chronic diseases. Do you think this is a positive or negative change?

Topic 2. There are genetic risk factors for many chronic diseases. However, we know that gene mutations do not occur in the population at the rate that chronic diseases have increased. Why do you think that the disease rates have changed while our genes (population wide) have not?

Topic 3. Think about the risk factors for chronic diseases. Do you think the rates of these risk factors have changed among the general population since the 1900s? How and why?

Topic 4. Does learning about the relationship between lifestyle and chronic disease change or reinforce any of your own habits, or advice you'd give to family/friends?

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