Healthy Living in the 21st Century

Healthy Living in the 21st Century

Chapters: Basic Nutrients and Special Diets | Exercise for Life Tips | Obesity Epidemic | Best (Recommended) Diet | Stress Management |

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This text gives many great examples on how to get started on healthy eating, regular physical fitness and details stress management for persons of all ages.

This text is directed toward health care providers to assist them in the education of their patients. Feel free to distribute it to all your patients as even non-medical personnel may also find a lot of useful information, however, like other medical-related documents such as life insurance contracts, there may be many technical terms or abbreviations that make it difficult to read. This text will review basic nutrition as well as common fad diets and give an introduction to stress management and exercise techniques that can be used to enhance longevity. Quitting smoking is also another healthy living tip, which will also reduce things such as the cost of your life insurance coverage.

***The information from this text was entirely drawn from the Clinical Medicine Consult (see below), which also contains detailed treatment protocols for nutrition, diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular diseases and covers 99% of all ailments primary care physicians manage. It is indexed and enhanced with hyperlinks to over 12,000 terms, medicines and conditions for fast navigation. It contains over 2,450 clinical (medical-surgical) topics for rapid reference along with specific drug doses and essential treatment pearls.

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  CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION EXERPT:

  Why all the fuss about diet and exercise?  The majority of adults in the United States are overweight or obese. The prevalence of overweight adults has increased from 31% to 64% in the last four decades. The prevalence of obesity has increased from 13% to 31% (JAMA 2002;288:1723-7). Adverse health consequences of obesity are well established and include increased risk of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, some types of cancer, and a reduced life expectancy.   Our "current" modern diet is clearly maladaptive as cardiovascular disease (heart attacks and strokes) is the main cause of death in Western societies (41% of all fatalities) (J Am Coll Card 2000;35:66-80B). Diabetes is another epidemic in modern society.  The lifetime risk of developing diabetes melitis for individuals born in 2000 is 32.8% for males and 38.5% for females AND a male who is diagnosed at age 40 years old will lose 11.6 life-years (14.3 if female) and 18.6 quality-adjusted life years (22 if female) (JAMA 2003;290:1884-90).   Cancer it the cause of 25% of the deaths in our society and can clearly be linked to certain environmental risks (80%).  Our cravings for sweets and fats gave us a survival advantage during times of famine.  In modern times with an abundance of inexpensive, calorie-dense foods, these cravings are working against us.  The basic "diet problem" with the average Western diet is..