It's highly likely that what you're doing is indeed influenced by your Jewish background.

The environment can actually affect gene expression.

Throwing young people on the scrap heap is a public health emergency.

We have to put reduction of health inequalities at the centre of our public health strategy and that will require action on the social determinants of health.

Height is probably 95 per cent genetic.

... social environment in childhood affects achieved adult height, life chances, and ultimately mortality rates in adult life. (...) ... social circumstances acting in childhood do have a persisting effect on adult disease rates, in addition to influences acting in adulthood.

I don't blame people for smoking when I see a social gradient in smoking. I say we need to understand why is it the lower you are in the hierarchy the more likely you are to smoke. So we need to address the causes of the causes.