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Healthy Lifestyle

From Pediatrics to Geriatrics

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  • © 2022

Overview

  • Provides a discussion on the ways of establishing a healthy lifestyle from early life
  • Presents the interactions of various lifestyle behaviors that affect health and disease states
  • Shows ample scientific evidence advocating towards disease prevention and healthy lifestyle promotion

Part of the book series: Integrated Science (IS, volume 3)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

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About this book

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

Editors and Affiliations

  • Pediatrics Department and USERN Office, Child Growth and Development Research Center, Research Institute for Primordial Prevention of Non-Communicable Disease, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran

    Roya Kelishadi

About the editor

Professor Roya Kelishadi is a specialist in Pediatrics, working as a faculty member of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences in Iran. Over her 25-year career, she focused on primordial/primary prevention of non-communicable diseases. She is the founder and chair of the Research Institute for Primordial Prevention of Non-Communicable Disease, as well as the founder and chair of the Child Growth and Development Research Center affiliated to Isfahan University of Medical Sciences. She is also the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Preventive Medicine.

Dr. Kelishadi combines her clinical and research background for prevention and control of risk behaviors and risk factors of adult diseases from the pediatric age. Her studies are focused on lifestyle and environmental factors related to the early life origins of adult chronic diseases. Moreover, her studies have highlighted the role of environmental pollutants and obesogen chemicals on the development of obesity and metabolic syndrome.


Dr. Kelishadi has received several national and provincial awards. From 2014 till now, she has been one of the top 1% scientists of the ISI Thomson Reuters with more than 750 papers in peer-reviewed journals. She has published 29 books including international books and chapters. She had more than 400 presentations in congresses, and has been an international guest speaker in some of them. She has served as WHO temporary adviser for prevention and control of childhood obesity and for primary prevention of non-communicable diseases.

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