BACKGROUND Lifestyle medicine is the science and application of healthy lifestyles as interventions for the prevention and treatment of disease, and has gained significant momentum as a specialty in recent years. College is a critical time for maintenance and acquisition of healthy habits. Longer-term, more intensive web-based and in-person lifestyle medicine interventions can have a positive e...

The objective of the study was to determine the attitude and practices of General Practitioners of sub-urban area of Karachi related to lifestyle counseling and health promotion. It was a cross-sectional study conducted using a survey questionnaire filled by General Practitioners working in Primary Healthcare clinics in Lyari-Korangi area of Karachi. Two hundred and ten GPs were eligible for th...

Although some modifiable lifestyle characteristics have been associated with decreased cancer risk, little is known about their combined effect or about the proportion of cancer cases that could be prevented by improving lifestyle behaviors. We aimed to quantify the association between lifestyle habits and all-site and site-specific cancer risk in middle-aged women. The study included 64,732 wo...

INTRODUCTION Lifestyle behaviors are essential elements of diabetes care. The aims of this study were to identify distinct subgroups of people with type 2 diabetes based on personal levels of lifestyle behaviors and explore the different characteristics across these subgroups. METHODS In 2015 and 2016, 1504 outpatients with a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes were selected via two-stage simple ran...

Weight gain has been associated with behaviors related to diet, sedentary lifestyle, and physical activity. We investigated dietary patterns and possible meaningful clustering of physical activity, sedentary behavior, and sleep time in Spanish children and adolescents and whether the identified clusters could be associated with overweight. Analysis was based on a subsample (n = 415) of the cros...

healthy lifestyle habits during adolescence can prevent many of the diseases and disabilities in adulthood and later. the aim of the study was to examine the role of education in improving lifestyles among iranian adolescents.this group randomized controlled trial was conducted during october 2010 until january 2011 in tehran. participants for this study were selected through a random sampling ...