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Welcome to my talk everybody! I want to tell you more about lifestyle medicine. It’s an approach based on scientific evidence. It’s aimed at preventing and even reversing diseases by adopting a healthy lifestyle. It includes six areas, which are nutritious diet, physical exercise, coping with stressful situations, avoiding substance abuse, such as tobacco, energy drinks or designer drugs, making sure you get enough sleep and having supportive relationships. You should have some physical activity on a daily basis. It could be going to the gym, gardening or going for walks. And food? Food is medicine. Your diet should be varied and based on plants, vegetables, fruits, seeds and whole grains. Let me give you some examples of…

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Some time ago, I had a group of friends who enjoyed partying and having fun. I liked it too, but I didn’t like the fact that it involved drinking a lot of energy drinks. We thought it was so cool but when I think about it now, it was irresponsible. I hadn’t heard about lifestyle medicine before. Now, I know that substance abuse is not good for your health. I’ve changed my lifestyle and I promote healthy lifestyle choices, also among my friends. It’s all thanks to lifestyle medicine, which I read about on social media. I hope it’s not too late.

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I’ve recently listened to a podcast about lifestyle medicine. I hadn’t heard about it before. My teacher recommended it to us. He thought we were really stressed out and wanted to help. The whole podcast is about lifestyle medicine, but the episode I listened to was about how to sleep better and manage stressful situations in life. I didn’t know that if you don’t get enough sleep, your immune system is weaker and you tend to get ill more often. And what about stress? The podcast offered some stress reduction techniques, like breathing or listening to nature sounds. I will definitely try them!

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Dear students! I know that you have your ups and downs in life, but it’s really important to have some social connectedness. What does it mean? It means that you shouldn't isolate yourselves at home, play games and watch series most of the time. It’s about having friends and people you can talk to and do things with. Feeling the connection with other people is important for emotional resilience. So, I would really like you to look around you and smile at someone you would like to get to know better and sit next to each other. The activity will be about…