How daily habits drive chronic diseases, and how food, activity and tracking your health can help prevent and manage them, and in some cases, such as type 2 diabetes, bring them into remission.
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Lifestyle medicine is the use of lifestyle behaviors to prevent, treat, and manage chronic disease. While some chronic diseases cannot be reversed, many can be prevented entirely by modifying certain lifestyle habits. Learn how healthy living can reduce your risk for chronic disease, including obesity, heart disease, high blood pressure, and type 2 diabetes.
A clean home leads to a healthier you. Discover cleaning habits that reduce allergens, prevent illness, and enhance air quality. Stay consistent, and cleaning your home will become second nature.
Inflammation can be good, but too much of a good thing can become bad, like with chronic inflammation. What if you could reduce chronic inflammation by adopting an anti-inflammatory lifestyle? Learn how this way of living works its magic!
Many chronic diseases grow out of everyday habits and surroundings. Smoking, excessive alcohol use, a sedentary lifestyle, added sugars and large portions, obesity, poor sleep and chronic stress all raise the risk, as do high cholesterol and triglycerides, chronic inflammation and environmental hazards such as obesogens.
Environmental Health 
Smoking-Related Illnesses 
Lung Cancer 
Smoking and Heart Health 
Cigarette Smoking and Cancer Risk 
Smoking and Eye Disease 
Cigar Smoking and Cancer 
Excessive Alcohol Use 
Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease 
Alcohol Use Disorder 
Sedentary Lifestyle 
Added Sugars 
Rethink Your Drink 
Food Portions 
Overweight and Obesity 
Obesogens 
Obesity 
Obesity in Women 
Obesity in Children 
Sleep and Chronic Disease 
Inflammation 
Chronic Stress 
High Blood Triglycerides 
High Blood Cholesterol 
High Cholesterol in Children and Teens 
Tobacco Use and Health 
Environmental Hazards Food is medicine means using diet to prevent and manage chronic disease, as part of whole health. Eating plans include DASH for high blood pressure, a low-cholesterol diet for the heart and the diabetic diet. Adults and children with chronic kidney disease, including those on dialysis, follow nutrition plans of their own.
Tracking your health means measuring it regularly, through checkups and screenings, so problems show up early. Measurements at home and in the doctor's office range from blood pressure, blood tests and A1C to glucose monitoring and electrocardiograms, along with bone density and breast cancer screening.
Health Checkup 
Heart Tests 
Vital Signs 
Wellness and Tracking Your Health: At-Home Measurements 
Stress Testing 
Holter and Event Monitors 
Blood Flow, Blood Pressure, and Resistance 
Men's Health Checkup 
Women's Health Checkup 
Blood Tests 
Diabetes Tests and Diagnosis 
A1C and Diabetes 
Osteoporosis Screening 
Breast Cancer Screening 
Wellness and Tracking Your Health: Doctor's Office Measurements 
A1C Test and Race/Ethnicity 
Blood Glucose Self-Monitoring 
Continuous Glucose Monitoring 
Blood Glucose 
At-Home Medical Tests 
Kidney Tests 
Laboratory Tests 
Genetic Testing 
Health Screening 
Electrocardiograms 
Biomarkers 
Family Health History Lifestyle-related chronic diseases are long-lasting conditions that habits such as diet, activity and smoking help cause, and that lifestyle changes can often improve. They include heart disease and stroke, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, chronic kidney disease, COPD and fatty liver disease, along with gout and osteoporosis.
Chronic Diseases 
Heart Diseases 
Heart Disease in Women 
Chronic Kidney Disease 
Type 2 Diabetes 
Diabetes Mellitus 
Type 2 Diabetes and African Americans 
Diabetes and Women 
Diabetes and Men 
Diabetes in Children and Teens 
Prediabetes 
Metabolic Syndrome 
Diabetes, Heart Disease, and Stroke 
High Blood Pressure 
High Blood Pressure and Older Adults 
High Blood Pressure and Your Kidneys 
Atherosclerosis 
Heart Attack 
Heart Attack in Women 
Coronary Heart Disease 
Carotid Artery Disease 
Peripheral Arterial Disease 
Angina 
Transient Ischemic Attack 
Stroke 
Ischemic Stroke 
Stroke and Women 
Stroke and Men 
Vascular Dementia 
COPD 
COPD in Women 
Asthma 
Asthma in Children 
Asthma in Women 
Gout 
Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease 
Fatty Liver Disease 
Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Children 
Cirrhosis 
Osteoporosis 
Osteoporosis in Men Many chronic diseases can be prevented or delayed through lifestyle medicine and heart-healthy living, from heart-healthy foods to regular activity. Prevention reaches from diabetes, high blood pressure and stroke to childhood obesity, cancer and dementia, along the cardiovascular continuum that links risk factors to heart disease.
Wellness habits help prevent and manage lifestyle-related diseases, from exercise and healthy eating to good sleep, a healthy weight and stress relief through meditation and yoga. Pain is part of many chronic conditions, and its care ranges from pain relievers and non-drug approaches to back pain, arthritis, fibromyalgia and headaches.
Wellness and Stress: Reduce Chronic Stress 
Relaxation Techniques 
Better Heart Health for African Americans 
Heart Health and Aging 
Physical Activity and the Heart 
Heart-Healthy Eating for Women 
Wellness and Exercise 
Exercise for Women 
Benefits of Exercise 
Exercise for Every Age 
Exercise for Older Adults 
Exercise for Children 
Exercise for Every Body 
Exercise and Physical Fitness 
Activity Guides 
Physical Activity for Arthritis 
Walking 
Yoga 
Healthy Living 
Wellness and Smoking 
High Blood Pressure and Complementary Health Approaches High Blood Pressure and Older Adults 
Wellness and the Consequences of Weight Gain 
Biofeedback 
Healthy Eating for Older Adults 
Wellness and Sleep 
Healthy Sleep 
Sleep Disorders and Complementary Health Approaches 
Stress Management 
Healthy Kidneys 
Cancer Prevention 
Diet and Cancer Risk 
Healthy Eating for Kids 
Wellness and Nutrition: Vitamins and Minerals 
Sun Safety Healthy Bones 
Body Weight 
Occupational Health for Healthcare Providers 
Physical Activity and Cancer Risk 
Healthy Weight 
Wellness and Nutrition: Optimal Eating 
Weight-Loss Programs 
Healthy Eating for a Healthy Weight 
Tips for Successful Weight Loss 
Weight Loss and Women 
Weight Control 
Managing Diabetes 
Loneliness and Social Isolation in Older Adults 
Diabetes Diet, Eating, & Physical Activity 
Weight Management Medications 
To Fast or Not to Fast 
Wellness and Nutrition: Intermittent Fasting Rethink Your Drink 
Wellness and the Science of Fat 
Wellness and Stress: Embrace Joy 
Emotional Wellness 
Anxiety and Complementary Health Approaches 
Stress 
Meditation 
Complementary and Integrative Medicine 
Massage Therapy 
Chronic Pain and Complementary Health Approaches 
Alcohol 
Dietary Fiber 
Dental Health 
Women's Oral Health 
Older Adult Oral Health 
Infant Oral Health 
Low Back Pain 
Channelopathy-Associated Congenital Insensitivity to Pain 
Pain Management 
Pain Relievers 
Hip Pain 
Pain 
Cancer Pain 
Prevent Back Pain 
Chronic Pain 
Joint Pain and Arthritis 
Central Pain Syndrome 
Pain in Older Adults 
Pelvic Pain 
Abdominal Pain 
Back Pain 
Period Pain 
Breastfeeding and Pain 
Non-Drug Pain Management Nutritional Approaches for Musculoskeletal Pain and Inflammation 
Chest Pain 
Neck Pain 
Complex Regional Pain Syndrome 
Toothache 
Neuralgia 
Ovulation Pain Headache 
Whiplash 
Sensory Perception 
Anesthesia 
Fibromyalgia 
Living with Fibromyalgia 
Fibromyalgia and Women 
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