Since the time of Hippocrates, primary prevention called for action by the people. In his treatise, Hippocrates laid great emphasis on personalized medicine based on diet and lifestyle. He stated that “The most famous doctors cure by changing the diet and lifestyle of their patient,” encompassing aspects such as food and drink, physical exercise, baths and massage, adequate sleep, sexual health, passions, habits, and the way of leading one’s life.
He observed that people of certain tribes were obese because they led sedentary lives. In his book Aphorisms, Hippocrates notes, “Those who are constitutionally very fat are more apt to die quickly than those who are thin.” Over the centuries, medical researchers arrived at the same conclusion that Hippocrates, through his wisdom and observation, had predicted. Numerous studies have established the adverse impact of obesity on longevity and…
