predispositions

"I do not swallow the genetics card any more. Have you read the Lipton paper in the .pdf directory? We all have the ability to change based upon belief and habit, genetics\predisposition or not."

I'll go part way with you.  As I said in an earlier post, everyone is responsible for their own condition and health.  There are predispositions to all sorts of things, from alcoholism to obesity, to heart disease.  And yes, we can each either delay or circumvent our predispositions.  That's easier said than done.  Yet they are finding, and have found in relation to diabetes, that lifestyle habits play a big role too.

I'll go you one better.  You and I and everyone else chose our parents, our siblings, and our genes.  If we chose genes with predispositions, we did it for a learning experience.