How Can Healthy Habits Prevent Chronic Diseases?
Practicing and building healthy habits can help reduce the risk of heart attack by 80%, stroke by 70%, type 2 diabetes by 90%, and cancer by 50%.
Did you know that 80% of chronic diseases result from unhealthy lifestyle habits? Healthy habits can prevent, slow, or reverse the damage from high cholesterol or high blood sugar. Practicing and building healthy habits can help reduce the risk of heart attack by 80%, stroke by 70%, type 2 diabetes by 90%, and cancer by 50%. By building healthier habits, you are en route to preventing chronic diseases.
Chronic diseases – such as diabetes, cancer, asthma, and heart disease – are leading causes of death and disability. The Liu Foundation offers philanthropic GoLively app and video series promoting evidence-based lifestyle habits to prevent chronic diseases. GoLively integrated Harvard, Stanford, and CDC’s Public Health findings into an easy-to-use behavior conditioning app and series of lifestyle motivation videos to prevent chronic diseases.
GoLively app and videos cover physical, mental, social, financial, and medical health aspects with 10 healthy lifestyle habits. GoLively enables corporate social responsibility to lower the annual $4 trillion spent on preventable chronic diseases in the United States. Healthy habits can lead to improved employee health, saving healthcare cost, increasing productivity, and morale. Download the Lively Habits app to help you keep track of your 10 healthy lifestyle habits. Go Lively!
Living It Up Anywhere
The idea of living your best life can be done anywhere, at any time, and all it really takes is a mindset shift. Take it one core lifestyle habit at a time, whether that is eating healthy and less, daily exercise, quitting bad habits, getting a routine checkup, or being positive. Take a chance today to Live It Up!