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Healthy thinking and positive outlook are essential features to ensure overall wellness.

Given the important role of health throughout life, scientific research has, from very early on, been focused on factors that could affect health. The genetic background has been acknowledged to be crucial to an individual's health. For example, heritability estimates for type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) range from 20% to 80%. High estimates for the heritability of obesity have also been proposed (typically >70%). However, the exposure to an obesogenic environment is necessary for the development of T2DM and obesity, suggesting that the genetic background is important, but several other environmental/lifestyle factors may also exert a cumulative effect on human health.