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Lifestyle Medicine is a branch of medicine that uses lifestyle adjustments as therapeutic interventions. These adjustments include a healthy eating plan, based on wholesome food and fresh produce, regular and customized physical activity, adequate sleep, stress management, avoidance of unhealthy substances (such as heavy drinking, smoking or use of drugs) and positive interpersonal relationships. All these interventions are used to prevent, treat or reverse the effects of chronic diseases, including cancer, heart disease, arthritis and diabetes [1]. Chronic diseases are the leading cause of death and disability in the US according to CDC [2].

1. American College of Lifestyle Medicine, What is Lifestyle Medicine (2021).
2. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, About Chronic Diseases (2021).
3. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, The cost of arthritis in US adults (2021).
4. Benjamin , et al. “Heart disease and stroke statistics-2018 update: a report from the American Heart Association 137 (2018): 67- 492.
5. National Cancer Institute, Cancer Prevalence and cost of care projection (2021).
6. American Diabetes “Economic Costs of Diabetes in the U.S. in 2017”. Diabetes Care 41.5 (2017): 917-928.
7. Finkelstein., et al. “Annual medical spending attributable to obesity: payer-and service-specific estimates”. PUBMED (2021).