Question

1. Discuss the prevalence of "lifestyle-related chronic disease".
2. A core component of lifestyle medicine is the use of evidence-based research. Discuss the importance of using only evidence-based research to inform therapeutic approaches.
3. How would you describe the field of lifestyle medicine and its importance, to someone who had never heard of "lifestyle medicine"?

Answer 1

● Life style related chronic disease are as follows:

Diabetes, cardiovascular disease

-- lifestyle related chronic disease is the leading causes of death and disability in India.

---obesity, inflammation, stress and insulin resistance are some of the effects .

--lifestyle-related chronic disease among older adults are also found to have the highest rates in people who are migrants.

●  evidence-based medicine is a lifelong process which include problem-based learning

---it include caring for patients

--- creat ing the need for clinically important information like diagnosis, prognosis, therapy and other clinical and health care issues.

●  Lifestyle Medicine is based on evidence approach

---- it is used to prevent and treat disease.

----It treats the cause of disease rather than its symptoms

---through Lifestyle Medicine we can change the course of spiraling health care costs.