The uncertainty can be frustrating and frightening, but it also means that your attitude and choices can play a major role in your future health. Check out a list of 10 questions designed to help you turn health information into clues and to get you started on becoming your own health risk detective. Reprinted with special permission of King Features Syndicate. Get past the presentation to the facts. Think about the quality of the information.
Information comes from many sources, good and bad.
Understand how this information fits in with other evidence. Determine whether the information changes your thinking and leads you to respond. Remember that understanding the importance of a risk requires that you understand the numbers. Put the risk into context. Identify the actions you can take to improve your health.