Modification of life style and health behaviors
Definition of Lifestyle Modification
Lifestyle modification involves altering
long-term habits, typically of eating or physical activity, and maintaining the
new behaviour for months or years. Lifestyle modification can be used to treat
a range of diseases, including obesity.
Definition of Health behavior
Health behavior is defined as the activity
undertaken by people for the purpose of maintaining or enhancing their health,
preventing health problems, or achieving a positive body image (Cockerham 2012,
120).
Concept of individual life style and healthy life style
1.
Life style is a term which can have at
least three different meaning the values that a person expresses with reference
to a limited number of basic dimensions (freedom, justice, equality etc.).
2.
A group of cluster of attitudes,
opinion, interest, and activities.
3.
Actual “patterns of behavior” e.g.
lifestyles characteristics by substance abuse or an active leisure time
involving sports, work in potential organization.
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