A Challenge to Health-Care Providers -- Changing Patterns of Disease: Human Health and the Environment

For most of us, genetic inheritance plays a limited role in determining our health. More important is where and how we live, work, and play -the quality of what we drink, eat, and breathe. From the time of conception, throughout development, and into early and late adulthood, environmental factors either directly impact biological tissues or influence gene expression and shape subsequent disease risks.