Lifestyle Medicine

Lifestyle medicine is a medical approach to chronic disease prevention, treatment, and management that employs evidence-based behavioral therapies. In a clinical and/or public health setting, lifestyle medicine is described as the application of environmental, behavioral, medicinal, and motivational principles to the management (including self-care and self-management) of lifestyle-related health conditions. Lifestyle medicine is frequently described in terms of its '6 Pillars' (diet/nutrition, physical activity, smoking cessation, alcohol harm reduction, sleep and stress management, and, of course, social connection), but there are many more pillars of health, ranging from the easily modifiable 'top four' or 'top six' behaviors to the numerous societal and environmental drivers that are more difficult to modify and require social change and political will. As a holistic, evidence-based approach to the difficulties facing our society and health system, Lifestyle Medicine is gaining acceptance around the world.

• Chronic disease
• Emotional well-being
• Humor and laughter
• Lifestyle medicine
• Mental health
• Preventive medicine
• Quality of life