Healthy Lifestyle: From Pediatrics to Geriatrics

This book offers a comprehensive overview on lifestyle habits related to  development of risk factors of chronic diseases. It provides a summary  of the impacts of various modifiable factors that influence long-term  health status. The accumulation of unhealthy lifestyle habits shows that  over the life course, increasing the number, duration, and severity of  unhealthy behaviors would increase the risk of disease development. This  contributed volume highlights the fact that establishing a healthy  lifestyle is easier and more effective than focusing on lifestyle change.