This article gives a generic outline of lifestyle medicine as an evidence-based specialty and how to develop a portfolio career in this new and exciting field. It also discusses the current disease burden associated with non-communicable diseases. Lifestyle medicine is defined by the American College of Lifestyle Medicine as ‘the use of a whole food, plant-predominant dietary lifestyle, regular physical activity, restorative sleep, stress management, avoidance of risky substances and positive social connection as a primary therapeutic modality for treatment and reversal of chronic disease’.
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