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What steps can you take to improve health if a risk factor is nonmodifiable?

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Reducing the major modifiable risk factors for noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), such as tobacco use, harmful use of alcohol, unhealthy diets and physical inactivity, is essential to reducing the burden on health.

Step-by-step explanation:

• Blood pressure checkup

• Blood sugar/diabetes checkup

• BMI

• Chronic inflammation

• Diet

• Regular Exercise

• HDL cholesterol

• No Smoking

• No Stress

• Total cholesterol

Reducing the major modifiable risk factors for noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), such as tobacco use, harmful use of alcohol, unhealthy diets and physical inactivity, is essential to reducing the burden on health and development that NCDs create for countries throughout the Western Pacific Region. As part of the effort to prevent and control NCDs, WHO Western Pacific Regional Office promotes the idea that people can be healthier when they make healthier decisions.

Insufficient physical activity contributes to 3.2 million deaths and 69.3 million disability-adjusted life-years each year. In 2003, WHO launched the annual “Move for Health” day as a global initiative to promote the benefits of physical activity in reducing the risk of heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and breast and colon cancer.

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