Healthy Eating
Choose whole, plant-based foods that are fiber-filled, nutrient dense, health-promoting and disease-fighting! Consider veggies, fruits, beans, lentils, whole grains, nuts and seeds as your dietary “North Star.”

Sleep
Lack of, or poor quality, sleep can lead to decreased ability to recover from illness, a strained immune system and chronic disease. Lifestyle medicine identifies dietary, environmental and coping behaviors to improve sleep health.

Stress
Stress can either lead to improved health and productivity - or to anxiety, depression, obesity, immune dysfunction and poor health outcomes. Helping patients recognize negative stress responses, leading to coping mechanisms and stress reduction techniques leads to improved health and wellbeing.

Relationships
Social connectedness is essential to our emotional resiliency and overall health. Studies show that isolation and loneliness are associated with increased mortality and morbidity, especially among individuals already diagnosed with lifestyle-related conditions.

Physical Activity
Regular and consistent physical activity that can be maintained on a daily basis throughout life--walking, gardening, push ups, and lunges--is an essential piece of the optimal health equation.

Cessation of Tobacco
The well-documented dangers of tobacco use include an increased risk of many cancers, heart disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Cessation counseling combined, when necessary, with medications, helps patients successfully quit the habit.