What is Lifestyle Medicine and How Do I Get It From My GP?
Over the past four decades, with the rapid advancements in agriculture, manufacturing and processing, and now digital technology, mankind has seen significant changes in food types, dietary patterns, daily activity levels and general lifestyle behaviours. Unfortunately, these rapid changes in diet and activity levels have contributed to an emergence of chronic diseases of pandemic proportions. The list is long and includes conditions such as Type 2 Diabetes, overweight/obesity, high blood pressure, pre-diabetes, high cholesterol, heart disease, chronic fatigue, emphysema, hip and knee joint pain, back pain, chronic stress and many forms of depression and anxiety.
The challenge is that these diseases do not make a person feel ill until they have progressed to a point where organs or systems
