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Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine

Lifestyle Medicine

Lifestyle Medicine 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 or smoking) and positive interpersonal relationships. All these interventions are used to prevent, treat or reverse the effects of chronic diseases, including cancer, heart disease, obesity, osteoporosis, arthritis and diabetes. 

-Chronic diseases are the leading cause of death and disability worldwide.

-It is estimated that 6 out of 10 adults suffer from a chronic disease and four in ten suffer from more than two