Exercise Vital Sign and Health Care Utilization

Mroszczyk-McDonald, Alex

doi:10.1249/01.mss.0000518754.08368.d1

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“…Lifestyle medicine is a rapidly evolving field that uses lifestyle therapeutic approaches leveraging a whole food plant–based diet, physical activity, sleep, emotional well-being, and avoiding tobacco and risky substances to prevent, treat, and oftentimes reverse lifestyle-related chronic diseases. 8,9 Lifestyle medicine may have found its perfect ally in soccer (although referred to as “football” in some countries, in this article, we prefer referring to the sport as “soccer”). A 2019 systematic review by Sarmento et al 10 demonstrates the benefits of recreational soccer on cardiovascular and bone health, body composition, type 2 diabetes, and prostate cancer.…”

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Scoring Lifestyle Medicine Goals With FIFA 2022—An Opportunity to Strike Big!

Doraiswamy

Cheema

Sheikh

et al. 2021

American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine

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Qatar is one of the few countries in the world with a dedicated national sports day. Qatar believes that sport is one of the best tools to promote a healthy lifestyle to help curb the growing burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). With the well-established positive health effects of soccer on cardiovascular, metabolic, and musculoskeletal conditions, the vision of the FIFA World Cup 2022™ hosted by Qatar to use the power of soccer to “open the door of an amazing world experience” is praiseworthy. With NCDs accounting for 70% of deaths in Qatar, there exists a perfect opportunity to promote healthy lifestyles to prevent, treat, and reverse NCDs. We believe that the FIFA World Cup 2022™ presents an opportunity that could contribute to generating valuable evidence on the lifestyle benefits of such large-scale events. This event comes at an opportune moment for countries in the region to make their health systems lifestyle-sensitive. FIFA World Cup 2022™ could just be the tipping point in the region that establishes the role of sports in mitigating the burden of NCDs. With the impact of COVID-19 on persons with pre-existing NCDs, the urgency for addressing the “syndemic” cannot be overemphasized and sport can be the lifestyle medicine.

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