{"id":51072,"date":"2011-11-22T08:39:16","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T13:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=51072"},"modified":"2011-11-23T09:17:44","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T14:17:44","slug":"share-the-turkey-pumpkin-pie-and-family-health-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2011\/11\/share-the-turkey-pumpkin-pie-and-family-health-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Share the Turkey, Pumpkin Pie, and Family Health History"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many American families treasure gathering around the Thanksgiving table, and some admittedly dread it. In either case, getting together with relatives for the holiday can have significant long-term health benefits.<\/p>\n

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Robin Schwartz, certified genetic counselor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cIn addition to the cherished pumpkin pie and cranberry relish recipes and those favorite family stories, we can pass down our knowledge about our family health history,\u201d says Robin Schwartz<\/a>, a certified genetic counselor at the UConn Health Center. \u201cSharing information can empower our children with the knowledge to be proactive about potential problems, like diabetes, heart disease and certain types of cancer. It\u2019s a powerful preventive medicine tool.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2004, the U.S. Surgeon General<\/a> declared National Family History Day would be recognized annually on Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n

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Jennifer Stroop, certified genetic counselor <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cHolidays can be the only times during the year when extended families are in the same place together, so Thanksgiving is really an ideal time to talk about previous generations \u2013 who had health problems, which ailments did they have, and how old were they when they had them,\u201d says Jennifer Stroop<\/a>, another UConn certified genetic counselor. \u201cPatients who can provide accurate family history to their health care providers are making a major contribution toward their own disease prevention.\u201d<\/p>\n

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services offers a free web-based tool called My Family Health Portrait<\/a>, which helps create a drawing of a family tree and a family health history chart. The chart and the drawing can be printed and shared with family members and health care professionals.<\/p>\n

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Certified genetic counselors at the UConn Health Center encourage families to take advantage of their time together at Thanksgiving to review or update family history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":51079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[57,2010],"class_list":["post-51072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uconn-health","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 20:18:42","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51072"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68866,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51072\/revisions\/68866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/51079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51072"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=51072"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=51072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}