Check your disease risk with a free online quiz

You now can check your disease risk with a free online quiz. View the website, What is your risk? and take the quiz. Your Disease Risk, The Source on Prevention is an online quiz to help you determine your risk for heart disease, diabetes, several cancers, osteoporosis and stroke.

Also check out how much protein there is in different foods. See: USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, Release 21. According to the US Dept. of Agriculture, the agency recommends about 46 grams daily of protein for women and 56 grams daily of protein from foods for men.

Noted expert in disease prevention, Dr. Graham Colditz created and developed the quiz with his former colleagues at the Harvard Medical School.The quiz helps you measure how your lifestyle habits influence your risk of certain diseases.

It also provides personalized tips for prevention and shows you how personal changes — like eating more vegetables or increasing exercise — can lower your risk. Find out your risk and return in a few months to check your progress, and remind yourself of what other steps you can take to improve your health.

At the Your Disease Risk, site, you'll see some of the sources on prevention. The quiz helps you to find out your risk of developing five of the most important diseases in the United States and get personalized tips for preventing them.

Developed over the past ten years by world-renowned experts, Your Disease Risk collects the latest scientific evidence on disease risk factors into one easy-to-use tool.

On another note and another site, the uTube video above recounts how a 600 lb. man lost weight by changing the types of fats/oils/fish he ate. He doesn't like vegetables because they make him hungry.

Hunger after eating vegetables or fruits is caused by an insulin release that creates hunger and/or by insulin resistance in some cases of metabolic syndrome as well as in healthy people. That's why you feel hungry an hour or two after eating a meal of entirely vegetables and fruits. The sugar in the carbs allows your body to release insulin.

To get started, view online the site What is your risk? Then choose one of the diseases that is listed at the Your Disease Risk website.

What is your risk?