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New program will ‘be umbrella for what we already have,’ CEO Dr. Paul Beaupre said. A staggering number of health problems are in some way tied to poor lifestyle choices, and a new program at St. John’s Medical Center hopes to combat them while lowering the amount of medicine patients take and procedures they undergo. Wellness Program Director Julia Heemstra briefed the hospital’s board of trustees Thursday on a lifestyle medicine program being developed in her department. “W

This is done in a clinical setting - through a doctor’s office or through community oriented programmes. For many months we have been looking at various aspects of Lifestyle Medicine – particularly addressing the common chronic diseases so often caused by our chosen lifestyles. In the last 17 articles we looked at the common chronic health problems in South Africa and how to specifically address those. Today and over the next few weeks we are going to look at Lifestyle Medic