The roles of diet, activity, and exercise have long been recognized as essential to a healthy lifestyle. As Plato stated, “Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it.” In his Physiology is Medicine editorial, Levine points out that humans were not meant to be sedentary, nor were they meant to eat the...

The aim of the paper is to present the results of a survey of railroad employees’ motivation for a healthy lifestyle. For this purpose a specific questionnaire was developed. The study was performed on 245 Slovene railroad workers (168 of them blue-collar ones). The great majority (66.9%) were found to be overweight or obese (BMI 25 or more), with no significant difference between blueand white...

background previous studies have mostly focused on socio-demographic and health-related determinants of health-related behaviors. although comprehensive health insurance coverage could discourage individual lifestyle improvement due to the ex-ante moral hazard problem, few studies have examined such effects. this study examines the association of a comprehensive set of factors including socio-d...

designers have increasingly used the capacity of design to influence human behavior and consequently to address the challenges that our society faces. one of these challenges is the rise of ‘lifestyle diseases’, such as obesity and diabetes. a change towards a more healthy lifestyle could in many cases prevent or diminish such diseases, which would reduce demands and costs in care. moreover, it...

We were interested in studying the association between personal health habits of healthcare providers and their beliefs and practices of lifestyle counseling to elderly hypertensive patients. We conducted a national anonymous cross sectional survey of physicians and nurse practitioners providing primary care. The survey was developed to assess providers’ beliefs and practices of lifestyle couns...

background: healthy lifestyle is a major strategy to promote current and subsequent health status. the aim of this study was to assess the status of health‑promoting the lifestyle and its determinants among students. methods: a stratified random sample of 500 students in a university in the city of sabzevar, iran participated in this cross‑sectional study. health‑promoting lifestyle was measure...

Objective Failure to correct for lifestyle in routinely collected data may lead to the healthy user or healthy adherer bias, because patients who initiate or adhere to preventive therapy (e.g. statins) may have a healthier lifestyle than patients who do not use or adhere to statins, respectively. We aimed to assess if there is a difference in lifestyle between statin users and non-users and bet...