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Treating lifestyle diseases with lifestyle interventions: Disephering the dichotomy of clinical approaches
Joint Event on 27th International Conference on Nursing and Healthcare & International Conference on Nutraceuticals and Food Sciences
Nov 12-13, 2018 | Paris, France
Ahmad Alkhatib
Dasman Diabetes Institute, Kuwait
Posters & Accepted Abstracts : J Food Sci Nutr
Abstract:
Lack of physical activity and poor nutrition are the main risk factors for most non-communicable diseases (NCDs), especially type-2 diabetes (T2D) and cardiovascular disease (CVD). Unsurprisingly, lifestyle interventions which combine physical activity with healthy nutrition have consistently been effective in both the prevention and managment of NCDs. For example, lifestyle prevention programs have demonstrated 58% reduction in T2D incidence, and those were acheived when physical activity and dietary programs were combined. Combining exercise with nutritional interventions in high-risk populations induces antiatherogenic, anti-hypertensive and antidiabetic benefits. Exercise is an established primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and mortality. However, exercise is still poorly prescribed, and its scientific advances are underutilised in the primay care. National healthcare systems across the world have failed to adopt or implement a clear physical activity prevention strategy, despite several calls from WHO. There has never been a better time to utilise the scientific advances in exercise science and nutrition fields in devising effective lifestyle interventions actioned to reversing or slow the trend based on the understanding of nutritional and exercise habits, training and adherence methodologies, individualized biochemistry profiling and genetics. A new generation of qualified graduates in lifestyle research could make a significant impact if utilised within the parimary and secondary healthcare systems. NCDs, causing over 41 million deaths yearly, are primarily lifestyle related, and the solution can only be through multicomponents lifestyle interventions, and by utilising specialities and scientific knowledge in this field.
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