Preventing disease by taking pills is easy.  You pop the pills, and expect the benefits, and you’re done – no changes needed.

An equally important, but much more difficult way of preventing disease is by changing dangerous lifestyle behaviors.  Examples of these behaviors are smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, drug abuse, overeating (which can result in obesity), and too little physical activity all produce harmful effects in your body.

Many patients can improve their behaviors just…

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