Healthy lifestyle: need for action

There is massive evidence that a healthy lifestyle, especially involvement in active exercise, reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes type 2, and obesity (Taylor et al., 2004). There is less strong but nevertheless good evidence that it reduces the risk of depression in the older adult...

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Published inInternational psychogeriatrics Vol. 24; no. 12; pp. 1875 - 1877
Main Author Graham, Nori
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.12.2012
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Cardiovascular disease
Diabetes
Exercise
Exercise - physiology
Exercise - psychology
Guest Editorial
Health Behavior
Healthy People Programs - organization & administration
Humans
Life Style
Lifestyles
Mental depression
Obesity
Prevention
Preventive Health Services - methods
Risk factors
Risk Reduction Behavior
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Summary:There is massive evidence that a healthy lifestyle, especially involvement in active exercise, reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes type 2, and obesity (Taylor et al., 2004). There is less strong but nevertheless good evidence that it reduces the risk of depression in the older adult population (Strawbridge et al., 2002). The evidence that it reduces the risk of Alzheimer's disease is contestable (Rolland et al., 2008), but if it reduces vascular disease there can be no argument that it must reduce the risk of vascular dementia.
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ISSN:1041-6102
1741-203X
DOI:10.1017/S1041610212001433