Understanding Lifestyle Medicine

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From what you eat to how often you exercise—doctors agree that the best way to maintain your health is to develop a healthy lifestyle. “It’s trying to keep you healthy in the first place. Really the bottom line is that,” said Dr. Arthur Morrow, a family medicine physician with Lee Health.

Dr. Morrow studies and practices lifestyle medicine. “It is an expansion of what family medicine and what patient-centered medicine does best already,” explained Dr. Morrow.

Lifestyle medicine is a preventative medicine that focuses on preventing and treating disorders using nutrition, physical activity, and stress relieving exercises. “We tell them exactly what kinds of foods, almost down to the food, that they should eat for their particular situation based on physical history, goals, and it gets very personal and detailed for their unique situation,” he said.

Doctors may also prescribe different forms of physical activity to improve a patient’s lifestyle. “We make the decisions and decide on a nutrition prescription, or a lifestyle prescription, or an exercise prescription,” said Dr. Morrow.

Using multiple resources, health experts follow up with their patients and make necessary adjustments to their prescription to keep them on track. “It’s a team-based approach, and in our office, we have several people to help us facilitate that,” he said.

All can keep patients focused on living a healthy lifestyle.