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Thanksgiving Day is not only a time to gather with friends and family to eat a sumptuous meal and count blessings. It’s also National Family Health History Day on November 27. The idea is to take a day when everyone in your family is assembled and discuss the family health history, specifically any occurrence of colorectal cancer. Healthcare providers encourage you to use this day to share and care about this and other serious diseases.



Our extended family doesn't even meet together on Thanksgiving.

This is an important thing to find out. It is hard to get family health questioned answered in bigger families. Some of my siblings I know have diabetes and my grandpa dies of heart problems but I don't really know all of my siblings heath issues because they choose not to take to us about them. It makes it hard for me to answer my health history without some of this info. Of course I have a few that don't even go to drs so they don't even know their issues.

I know about my parents' health and about most of my siblings, too

We try to avoid the topic