PurposePeople who are first-degree relatives of cancer patients at an increased risk developing themselves. Despite this, do not always make beneficial changes to their health behaviours. This study aimed answer the following questions: (1) behaviours people survivors change diagnosis, and if so, how, why, (2) what motivations/barriers exist for when seeking engage with promoting behaviours, (3...

Since early 2020, COVID-19 has dominated headlines, claimed millions of lives, crippled global economies, overwhelmed health services, attracted multi-disciplinary scientific attention and transformed our daily lives. Unsurprisingly, the Lifestyle Medicine field not been immune to pandemic's wide-reaching influence. Although highlighted necessity maintaining healthy behaviours, associated lockd...

BACKGROUND Lifestyle has been shown to affect fertility in both males and females, with compelling evidence that smoking and being under or overweight impairs natural and assisted fertility, and other factors such as stress and caffeine have also been implicated. The objective of this study was to determine whether providing infertile couples with individualized lifestyle assessments and ongoin...

BACKGROUND Combined lifestyle interventions (CLIs) have proved to be effective in changing and maintaining behavioural lifestyle changes and reducing overweight and obesity, in clinical and real-world settings. In this CLI, lifestyle coaches are expected to promote lifestyle changes of participants regarding physical activity and diet. In the Coaching on Lifestyle (CooL) intervention, which tak...

As our understanding of genetics has improved, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified numerous variants associated with lifestyle behaviours and health outcomes. However, what is sometimes overlooked is the possibility that genetic variants identified in GWAS of disease might reflect the effect of modifiable risk factors as well as direct genetic effects. We discuss this possibi...

In this paper the methodology and procedures of a case-control study that will be developed for assessing the role of dietary habits and eating behaviours on the development of acute coronary syndrome and stroke is presented. Based on statistical power calculations, 1000 participants will be enrolled; of them, 250 will be consecutive patients with a first acute coronary event, 250 consecutive p...

OBJECTIVE To examine the association of constipation with exercise, non-exercise physical activity, and sedentary behaviours in Hong Kong adolescents. METHODS In 2006-2007, 42 secondary schools were randomly selected to participate in the Hong Kong Student Obesity Surveillance (HKSOS) project. A total of 33692 Form 1-7 students (44.9% boys; mean age 14.8, SD 1.9 years) completed an anonymous ...