Knowing your family’s health history is an important part in understanding your risks of getting certain types of cancer. In my case it also showed how lifestyle and stress played an important role and how genes and environmental issues were likely reasons for the extraordinarily high cancer rate in my family.
On my mother’s side of [...]
I lived and worked hard most of my life. In 1996 I pursued an IT career after many years in the trades as a tile setter. It was ironic that the IT career I chose would turn out to be harder on my body than the trades were. Long hours spent sitting or driving left [...]
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