Pediatric lifestyle medicine encompasses key aspects of preventive medicine, which is at the heart of pediatric care. Lifestyle choices are important determinants of health outcomes. Key components of preventive health care include optimal nutrition, maintaining an appropriate weight, developing an active lifestyle, and avoidance of tobacco, alcohol, and other substances of abuse. In addition, reduction of risk behaviors through incorporation of safe health habits is important. Incorporation of the tenets of pediatric lifestyle medicine by pediatricians and other primary care providers of infants, children, and adolescents will promote a healthier population, prevent disease and disability, and ultimately decrease health care costs and use of health care resources. Communities, including school systems, must also embrace concepts of pediatric lifestyle medicine.
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