Healthy lifestyle keeps diabetes away
Source: The Hindu, 28-03-2006
Healthy lifestyle keeps diabetes away
Special Correspondent
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CHENNAI: If you are planning to take up walking as an exercise to remain healthy after about 30 years, think again. Here is a group of lifestyle medicine practitioners who say the moment you begin to walk, you have to stay active and normal throughout your life.
Edward M. Philips and Susan Parks of Harvard Medical School are sure advocates of this concept.
Lifestyle medicine has evolved as a speciality to address the global pandemic of obesity, sedentary behaviour and the use of tobacco substances, says Dr. Philips, who is with HMS Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.