Lifestyle medicine

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Lifestyle medicine (English lifestyle medicine ) refers to the prevention and treatment of lifestyle -bedingten disease (syn. Lifestyle diseases , diseases of affluence) by measures of nutritional medicine , exercise medicine and psychological and social measures.

Lifestyle medicine is an interdisciplinary field of preventive medicine, internal medicine, psychology, sociology, public health care ( public health ) with evolutionary biology and molecular-biological aspects. However, it should not be confused with pure lifestyle drugs.

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  1. Garry Egger, Andrew Binns, Stephan Rössner: Lifestyle Medicine . McGraw-Hill , 2007, ISBN 978-0-07-013817-9 ( online ).
  2. SZ Rahman, V Gupta, A Sukhlecha, Y Khunte: Lifestyle drugs: Concept and impact on society . In: Indian J Pharm Sci . 72, No. 4, 2010, pp. 409-413. doi : 10.4103 / 0250-474X.73902 . PMID 21218048 . PMC 3013560 (free full text).
  3. ^ Rahman SZ & Gupta V. The concept of lifestyle medicine and lifestyle drugs in Pharmacology. In: Ansari AA, ed. Proceedings of the International Conference on Holistic Approach of Unani Medicine in Lifestyle Diseases, Department of AYUSH, MoH & FW, Govt. of India and AMU, Aligarh: AMU Press; 2007. p. 13