
By BY SUI-LEE WEE AND DONALD G. MCNEIL JR. from NYT Health https://ift.tt/300FeoE

That's about 1 million deaths lost to booze over less than two decades, with white women experiencing the greatest annual increases.
For years, research into "obesity genes" has led many Americans to believe that their DNA makes becoming overweight and obese inevitable. But the new study shows that daily lifestyle -- not genes -- probably plays the much bigger role.
Cancer deaths in the United States fell 2.2% between 2016 and 2017, the largest-ever single-year decrease.