Lifestyle and Resilience in Mental Health Care

Promoting health and preventing disease through healthy lifestyle choices and resilience is essential to improving both lifespan and health span. Chronic diseases affect about 60 % of the population and account for most healthcare costs, so effective management must include lifestyle changes. Lifestyle medicine focuses on the root causes of illness through 6 interconnected pillars: optimal nutrition, physical activity, restorative sleep, stress management, social connection, and avoidance of risky substances. Attention to these areas can prevent or improve up to 80 % of chronic diseases while enhancing quality of life, resilience, and recovery.

Know what’s Happening Next — before everyone else does.

Get App

Host or Publisher Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences