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    The document discusses the six key areas of focus for lifestyle medicine: nutrition, physical activity, stress management, tobacco cessation, sleep, and relationships. It promotes choosing whole, plant-based foods and regular physical activity to improve health and reduce disease risk. Lifestyle medicine aims to prevent and reverse diseases through positive lifestyle changes rather than just treating symptoms.

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    The document discusses the six key areas of focus for lifestyle medicine: nutrition, physical activity, stress management, tobacco cessation, sleep, and relationships. It promotes choosing whole, plant-based foods and regular physical activity to improve health and reduce disease risk. Lifestyle medicine aims to prevent and reverse diseases through positive lifestyle changes rather than just treating symptoms.

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    Lifestyle Medicine implica el uso de enfoques terapéuticos basados ​​en la evidencia

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    The document discusses the six key areas of focus for lifestyle medicine: nutrition, physical activity, stress management, tobacco cessation, sleep, and relationships. It promotes choosing whole, plant-based foods and regular physical activity to improve health and reduce disease risk. Lifestyle medicine aims to prevent and reverse diseases through positive lifestyle changes rather than just treating symptoms.

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    The document discusses the six key areas of focus for lifestyle medicine: nutrition, physical activity, stress management, tobacco cessation, sleep, and relationships. It promotes choosing whole, plant-based foods and regular physical activity to improve health and reduce disease risk. Lifestyle medicine aims to prevent and reverse diseases through positive lifestyle changes rather than just treating symptoms.

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    Increase

    PHYSICAL
    ACTIVITY Develop
    strategies to
    HEALTHFUL EATING MANAGE
    of whole, plant-based food STRESS
    LIFESTYLE MEDICINE FOCUSES ON 6 AREAS TO IMPROVE HEALTH
    Form & maintain
    Cessation of RELATIONSHIPS
    TOBACCO
    Improve your
    SLEEP

    LIFESTYLE MEDICINE
    Lifestyle medicine is an evidence-based approach to preventing, treating and
    even reversing diseases by replacing unhealthy behaviors with positive ones —
    such as eating healthfully, being physically active, managing stress, avoiding
    risky substance abuse, adequate sleep and having a strong support system.
    NUTRITION Food trumps all.
    Choose whole, plant-based foods
    6 WAYS
    TO TAKE CONTROL
    EXERCISE Regular and
    consistent physical activity that

    OF YOUR
    that are fiber-filled, nutrient can be maintained on a daily
    dense, health-promoting and basis throughout life—walking,
    disease-fighting! Consider gardening, push ups and
    veggies, fruits, beans, lentils, lunges—is an essential piece
    whole grains, nuts and seeds of the optimal health equation.
    as your dietary “North Star.”

    SLEEP Lack of, or poor


    quality, sleep can lead to
    decreased ability to recover
    HEALTH
    Being mindful of your food choices, managing
    TOBACCO The well-documented
    dangers of tobacco use include an
    increased risk of many cancers,
    from illness, a strained immune your stress, being physically active, avoiding risky heart disease and chronic
    system and chronic disease. substance use, getting plenty of sleep and having a obstructive pulmonary disease
    Lifestyle medicine identifies (COPD). Cessation counseling
    strong emotional support system in your life—are
    dietary, environmental and combined, when necessary,
    coping behaviors to improve “just what the doctor ordered” to powerfully prevent, with medications, helps patients
    sleep health. treat, and, often, even reverse chronic disease and successfully quit the habit.
    select autoimmune conditions.

    RELATIONSHIPS Social connectedness is STRESS MANAGEMENT Stress can either lead to


    essential to our emotional resiliency and overall improved health and productivity — or to anxiety,
    health. Studies show that isolation and loneliness depression, obesity, immune dysfunction and poor
    are associated with increased mortality and health outcomes. Helping patients recognize negative
    morbidity, especially among individuals already stress responses, leading to coping mechanisms and
    diagnosed with lifestyle-related conditions. stress reduction techniques leads to improved health
    and wellbeing.

    LIFESTYLE MEDICINE’S UNIQUE VALUE PROPOSITION The American College of Lifestyle


    Medicine (ACLM) is the nation’s
    medical professional association
    • Allows the body to protect and heal itself • Encourages active patient participation
    by promoting healthful lifestyle choices for physicians, allied health
    • Treats the underlying, lifestyle-related
    professionals, healthcare executives,
    • Educates, guides and supports positive causes of disease
    and those in professions devoted to
    behavior changes • Uses medications as a supplement transforming health and redefining
    • Places a focus on evidence-based optimal to therapeutic lifestyle changes healthcare through lifestyle medicine.
    nutrition, stress management, sleep and • Considers the patient’s home and
    physical activity community environment lifestylemedicine.org

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