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Vol.13 Issue.4 · October - December 2022
Page: 193-196 Letter to the Editor 789x viewed
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Lifestyle Medicine and Family Physician’s Role

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Published Online: 30 December 2022 · Accepted: 8 December 2022 · Received: 30 September 2022
Doi: 10.15511/tjtfp.22.00493
Cite Code: The Journal of Turkish Family Physician 2022;13(4):193-196
Authors: Nurgül Yavuz 1 · Özden Gökdemir 2
1 Izmir University of Economics, Faculty of Medicine, Intern Dr., Izmir. / ORCID:0000-0002-4847-3814
2 IUE Faculty of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine, Asst. Prof., Balçova, İzmir. {ORCID:0000-0002-0542-5767}

Alıntı Kodu: Yavuz N. ve Gökdemir Ö. Yaşam Biçimi Tıbbı ve Aile Hekiminin Rolü.  Jour Turk Fam Phy 2022; 13 (4): 193-196. Doi: 10.15511/tjtfp.22.00493.


Keywords: behavioral change · family physician · lifestyle medicine
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Abstract

Lifestyle medicine is the application of simple, natural healing approaches to chronic disease care and prevention.  This approach includes physical activity, healthy nutrition, sleep health, stress management, limited alcohol usage and quit smoking. With interventions about these topics, we can protect ourselves from non-communicable diseases. The important thing is starting to make some changes and making these behavioral changes last. The physicians’ role in this topic is important. Their recommendations have huge effect on patient’s lifestyle changes also we know that physicians’ behavior about lifestyle strongly influence patients’ lifestyle.  So, physicians should adapt these changes to their own lives..

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