The leading causes of (1)________ in many developing countries are now heart disease, cancer, accident, flu, pneumonia etc. Moreover cigarettes, alcohol, physical inactivity and overeating also add to the causes of several of these killing diseases. Medicine has little help to offer, however, to persons (2)________ can not rid (3)________ habits harmful to their health.
Surgery is the only (4)________ to offer any chance of survival for people (5)________ lung cancer.
Although psychiatrists tried to stop people (6) drinking, they haven't been very (7)________. Neither have doctors. How then (8)________ our health improved? The answer is simple, though perhaps not very pleasing. Ordinary persons can do it (9)________. They (10)________ able to make good advances in the prevention of diseases.