Doctors and other providers can offer tools that help you stave off disease and stay healthy, like medications, surgery and other treatments. But oftentimes, you're the one who has to make sure these tools work.
New research presented at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference 2011 confirms that our daily choices can make a very real impact on our risk of this disease.
It seems that in fairy tales and bedtime stories something is always too big or too small. We run into the same thing here in the real world, including the health care field.