ABSTRACT
Lifestyle Medicine can be effective in treatment and, in some cases, the complete reversal of the manifestations and possibly even the cure of many chronic non-infectious diseases. Lifestyle medicine plays an important role within standard Allopathic Medicine. The phrase “lifestyle medicine” appears to have been first used by the epidemiologist Ernst Wynder in a discussion of the effects of smoking on lung cancer risk around 1988. Even within the medical community, lifestyle medicine has “adjustments” in implications/meanings. The American College of lifestyle medicine and American College of Preventive Medicine prepared an overview of lifestyle medicine in 2009 that sought to gather into one place the current thinking on the area from a medical perspective. An expanded understanding of lifestyle medicine may include the improvement of society, culture, environment, and even government in ways that make it easier for everyone to make healthier choices.
