Healthy lifestyle habits may be associated with reduced risk of chronic disease
Monday, August 10, 2009 - 15:56
in Health & Medicine
Four healthy lifestyle factors -- never smoking, maintaining a healthy weight, exercising regularly and following a healthy diet -- together appear to be associated with as much as an 80 percent reduction in the risk of developing the most common and deadly chronic diseases, according to a report in the August 10/24 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journal