Know your family medical history
Your family's health can tell you some things about your own. At family gatherings, talk about and write down diseases and conditions that others in your family have. Use tools like the U.S. Surgeon General's "My Family Health Portrait" to build a family medical tree: health.harvard.edu/familytree
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