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Wednesday, June 19, 2013 Did you know that a person's feelings,
life circumstances and how they live can affect their health?
Medical researchers have found that these factors are very
important. A person's choices about how they live, such as
whether they smoke or not, can affect their health. Other things
are important, too, such as having people to support you if you
have a difficult health problem. Links between a person's "life
style," living situation and health are so real they often play
a key role in how sick, or how healthy, you are. Social and
behavioral research is done to discover important links between
how we live, what we believe, and the impact these have on
health. The more we learn about these links, the more we can
predict what puts a person at risk for illness and develop ways
to prevent or better tre