Health promotion for patients is facilitated when the nurse encourages changes based on information that diabetes, heart disease, and breast and colon cancer are causally linked to
a. environmental toxins.
b. hypolipidemia.
c. overactivity.
d. obesity.
ANS: D
Obesity and lack of exercise are closely associated with the development of diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, hypertension, colon cancer, and postmenopausal breast cancer. Environmental toxins have not been linked to these illnesses. Hyperlipidemia is associated with these illnesses. The causal link for heredity is not as strong as for obesity.
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