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The cornerstone of good health
Lifestyle medicine recognizes that modifiable lifestyle factors (e.g., unhealthy diet, inability to effectively cope with stress) are major contributors to the development of chronic illness. Creating and maintaining a healthy lifestyle plan (as opposed to pharmaceuticals) can be used successfully as primary treatments for these health conditions.
In fact, healthful behaviors can profoundly affect our health on cellular and genetic levels:
According to a 2009 research study, modifiable lifestyle factors (including tobacco use, physical inactivity, low intake of vegetables and fruits, low dietary intake of “healthy fats”) are responsible for almost 85% of all deaths in the United States.
Health conditions preventable and/or responsive to lifestyle medicine approaches include:
Frequently overlooked benefits of a lifestyle medicine approach include:
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