Question

An individual is a fifty-year-old smoker that lives in a highly polluted city, gets no exercise, eats fast food every day, and has a family history of lung cancer. Which of the following is an uncontrollable risk factor?

A.
diet choice
B.
heredity
C.
smoking
D.
lack of exercise

Answer 1

B. Heredity.
You can't change what your parents gave to you! It's part of your DNA.

Answer 2

Heredity. The man can avoid getting ill from the things he eats, whether he smokes or not, and can do exercise to be healthy by the power of choice! If he inherits a disease from his family, it is something that he cannot control, avoid, or change. It's like trying to change your DNA!!