Lifestyle Medicine and Family Physician’s Role
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..