Description:
1. Lifestyle behaviors during pregnancy and health risk of offspring at birth and early childhood -- 2. The role of healthy lifestyle in the primordial prevention of metabolic syndrome throughout lifetime: what we know and what we need to know -- 3. Different aspects of lifestyle genomics in health and disease -- 4. Impact of behavioral adversities during life on individual’s long-term heath status -- 5. The role of dietary habits on risk factors of chronic non-communicable diseases -- 6. Physical activity and prevention of chronic health problems -- 7. Exercise, health, longevity and social media: a discourse -- 8. Sleep duration and quality in life periods in development and progress of chronic diseases -- 9. The role active and passive smoking in the progress of chronic diseases -- 10. Shisha smoking – behaviour with health and social implications, affecting all ages -- 11. Risk factors and lifestyle habits leading to alcohol consumption from youth -- 12. Lifestyle factors, depression, anxiety and stress related to the internet addiction among school children -- 13. The new life after confinement: why should we increasingly maintain an active and healthy lifestyle? -- 14. Exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals, part of lifestyle factors related to growth disorders in childhood and chronic diseases in adulthood.
This book offers a comprehensive overview on lifestyle habits related to development of risk factors of chronic diseases. It provides a summary of the impacts of various modifiable factors that influence long-term health status. The accumulation of unhealthy lifestyle habits shows that over the life course, increasing the number, duration, and severity of unhealthy behaviors would increase the risk of disease development. This contributed volume highlights the fact that establishing a healthy lifestyle is easier and more effective than focusing on lifestyle change.