From Old Age to Pollution, Science Keeps Changing How We Understand Illness
Category: HEALTHY LIVING
Just a generation ago, heart disease and other chronic diseases like dementia were felt to be an inevitable consequence of getting old. Since the 1960s, however, we have learned that only a small percentage of chronic diseases are explained due to genetic origins.
By Joel Kahn, M.D., ContributorAmerica's Heart Attack Prevention Doc and author of The Whole ..., 2015-09-19