Open AccessLifestyle Medicine: a field of medicine with deep roots and great potential for the future
Author(s) -
Ioannis Arkadianos
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
revista de la facultad de medicina humana
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2308-0531
pISSN - 1814-5469
DOI - 10.25176/rfmh.v22i1.4389
Subject(s) - lifestyle medicine , alternative medicine , term (time) , gerontology , healthy eating , medicine , physical activity , traditional medicine , family medicine , physical therapy , pathology , physics , quantum mechanics
Lifestyle Medicine - even though the term only recently started being broadly used – has its roots in ancient Greece, thousands of years ago. Hippocrates (460 – 370 B.C.) was the first one to use the term of Lifestyle Medicine, suggesting that in order for someone to have a good health, they should just “avoid eating excessive amounts of food and try to exercise even a bit”. So, he set the ground for what we call today, Lifestyle Medicine.