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In the, err, vein of RealAge, Harvard University offers Your Disease Risk, an online survey designed to highlight risk factors for any of five diseases: cancer, diabetes, heart disease, osteoporosis, and stroke. (Hat tip: Bim)

Also provided are Nine Ways To Stay Healthy and Prevent Disease. Sure, these are common sense, but then again 61% of adult U.S. residents are overweight… so maybe these are really uncommon sense.

Disease is a societal as well as personal challenge. Your government pays an enormous amount of money to treat the sick, even the sick who through dangerous lifestyle choices brought their disease on themselves. Sample statistic, from the American Diabetes Association:

[T]he nation spends $13,243 on each person with diabetes, compared to $2,560 per person for people who don’t have diabetes.