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Overview
What is Lifestyle Medicine(LM)?
Why is it important?
What is the role of lifestyle change in preventing and
the treatment of disease?
How can we implement lifestyle changes in our lives
and the world around us?
The of our "Fingers, Feet, Forks, Stress, Sleep and
Love"
How can we create our own "Blue Zones"?
" Be the Change You wish to see in the World"
Mahatma Gandhi
Definition of Lifestyle Medicine
Lifestyle Medicine is the therapeutic use of evidenced-
based lifestyle interventions to treat and prevent lifestyle
related diseases in a clinical setting. It empowers
individulals with the knowledge and life skills to make
effective changes that address the underlying cause of
disease.
"American College of Lifestyle Medicine" 2009
“If we give every individual the right amount of
nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too
much, we have found the safest way to health.”
Hippocrates
Why is Lifestyle Medicine So Important?
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