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From EurekAlert! - Breaking News:

Despite clear evidence of the health benefits, few US adults conform to four common healthy behaviors that together characterize a healthy lifestyle, according to the April 25 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

Current public health reports emphasize lifestyle modification, particularly quitting smoking, improved diet, increased physical activity and weight control, as the key to prevention and control of chronic diseases, according to background information in the article. Even though chronic diseases account for the greatest burden in terms of illness, diminished quality of life, and death, few Americans undertake the modifications that would result in a healthy lifestyle, the researchers found.

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