Lifestyle Medicine Intervention
According to research, close to 85 cents of every dollar spent in the United States for healthcare is for treatment of conditions due to poor lifestyle choices. Meliorem Health's Lifestyle Medicine Program is designed to educate, equip and empower patients and clients with lifestyle choices to prevent, treat and often, potentially reverse chronic and select autoimmune disease.
Evidence Overwhelmingly Supports the Effectiveness of Lifestyle Medicine
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“Recent clinical research provides a strong evidential basis for the preferential use of lifestyle interventions as first-line therapy. This research is moving lifestyle from prevention only to include treatment–from an intervention used to prevent disease to an intervention used to treat disease.” The American College Of Lifestyle Medicine
Lifestyle medicine is a scientific, evidence-based lifestyle therapeutic approach to decreasing disease risk and illness burden by utilizing lifestyle interventions such as nutrition, physical activity, stress reduction, rest, smoking cessation, and avoidance of alcohol abuse and risky substance abuse. It is the recommended foundational approach to preventing, treating, and oftentimes, reversing lifestyle-related chronic diseases.
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Meliorem Health's Lifestyle Medicine Program is about the whole human health experience, promoting health, and disease prevention. Relying upon evidence-based guidance, our program focuses on:
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Please feel free to download the What is Lifestyle Medicine patient-education infographic for more information about lifestyle medicine.
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