What we do for you

We give you the tools to prevent chronic diseases
adopting an anti-inflammatory lifestyle.
Today, chronic diseases represent the major share of the burden of diseases all over the world. They are responsible for more than 75% of all deaths. At the core of the problem is the fact that an unhealthy lifestyle (with lack of physical activity, bad dietary habits, consumption of alcohol and tobacco etc...) causes chronic inflammation in our body’s cells. This inflammation leads to the onset of chronic diseases, such as obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and some forms of cancer. Cellular damage may also be caused by chronic stress.
 

Our living environment has dramatically changed over the last 60 years, and so has our lifestyle. Unfortunately, the changes have not always been positive for our health. The EPIC (the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition) study by the WHO, is a study with more than 500,000 participants in 10 European countries. It collected detailed information on lifestyle characteristics (diet, tobacco smoking, alcohol consumption, physical activity, and weight) and medical history.

The study showed (among others things) that adhering to four healthy lifestyle factors (not smoking, exercising 3.5 hours per week, adopting a healthy diet and having a normal body mass index) resulted in a 78% reduction of the risk of developing chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes, myocardial infarction, stroke and cancer, compared to participants without healthy factors, which is no less than spectacular.

However, people need to be aware of the impact of these factors. The key to prevention lies in adopting what I like to call an “anti-inflammatory lifestyle”, where one tries to avoid or reduce unhealthy lifestyle factors as much as possible.

WHAT IS LIFESTYLE MEDICINE?

Lifestyle Medicine can be defined as a branch of evidence-based medicine in which comprehensive lifestyle changes (including nutrition, physical activity, stress therapy, social support and environmental exposures) are used to prevent, treat and, in some cases even, reverse the progression of chronic diseases by addressing their underlying causes.

Lifestyle medicine is an interdisciplinary field of internal medicine, psychosocial and neurosciences, public and environmental health, and biology. Key principles include prevention strategies that address lifestyle habits, the underlying biological causes, and the consequences of lifestyle related diseases (e.g. systemic inflammation, metabolic dysfunctions etc.). As such, Lifestyle Medicine is a form of treatment that helps to combine the best aspects of public health and conventional clinical medicine.

(Dr Stefania Ubaldi)

 

In Our Clinic You Find

Medical/Practitioners Offices

Collection Center

Fitness Room for physical activity and for stress reduction

Indoor pollution Consultant

Secretary/ Coffee point/ Lounge