Research ELMO E-Book E-Learning Program Guidelines ELMO E-Book Lifestyle Medicine and Chronic DiseasesPrevention and Treatment The European Lifestyle Medicine Organization is proud to present to you all its latest lifestyle medicine project, the ELMO E-Book! This book is the product of a fruitful cooperation between ELMO and the below listed lifestyle medicine experts dedicated to the prevention and treatment of all that threatens a healthy lifestyle. The ELMO E-Book will be given free to every new ELMO Member as well as to all past members who will renew their expired membership in 2024. If you are a member, you will see your e-book automatically in gMEM registration system after your LOGIN. If you are not a member, please choose e-shop registration tag and follow instructions. The cost of the E-Book is 55,00 € Puchase the e-book now E-Book Foreword This book launches the concept of lifestyle medicine in Romania. It is a new area of development in daily life, which can act prophylactically to avoid the onset of chronic or acute diseases or to avoid their complications. Thus, with this proposal we bring to the readers’ attention the amazing role of lifestyle in the prevention, progression, and treatment of chronic diseases. Risk factor or drug, protector or foe, lifestyle can dramatically influence health maintenance or disease progression.The book brings together the experience of personalities with a prominent reputation in the Romanian medical life, validating the concepts on each specialty. Lifestyle Medicine, using the latest scientific evidence, becomes a feasible tool, useful for each specialty, with reflection in primordial, primary, and secondary prevention. The relevance of prevention and adherence to a healthy lifestyle is also relaunched by the current COVID-19 pandemic. All recommendations for proper nutrition, sustained physical activity, restful sleep, mindfulness, absence of smoking and stress management have been overturned by quarantine, isolation in the context of this virus.All the more so, the following pages will provide recommendations and explanations for the current period, when lifestyle should be approached from a medical perspective with much more conviction, for educational purposes at population level.We would like to express our warmest thanks to an elite team who, with vision, realized the future potential of this field and, with passion and enthusiasm, mobilized and developed this topic in record time. We are convinced that through such people who believe in lifestyle, through doctors who are true role models for their patients, we will succeed in developing prevention in Romania and in putting this innovative concept into practice.Certainly, those who look carefully at this book will discover and be able to confirm Jim Roh’s words: ‘Lifestyle is culture – the appreciation of good music, dance, art, sculpture, literature, plays and the art of living well. It’s a taste for the fine, the unique, the beautiful’. Under the Editorship of Anca Mihaela HâncuSecretary General Details Ioan HanesMD, Vice president + Treasurer Details Prof.Florin Mihălțan M.D. List of Authors Catalina Liliana AndreiAssociate Professor Univ. M.D. ‘Carol Davila’ UMF, BucharestPrimary Care Physician Cardiology, ‘Bagdasar Arseni’ Emergency Hospital, Bucharest Cornelia BalaProf. Univ. M.D. ‘Iuliu Hatieganu’ UMF, Diabetes and Nutritional Diseases Department, Chuj-NapocaSenior Physician Diabetes, Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases, Clinical Center for Diabetes, Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases, Cluj-Napoca Corina Ioana BorceaAssistant Professor Univ. M.D., ‘Carol Davila’ UMF, Department of Pulmonology II, BucharestSpecialist Physician Pulmonology, ‘Marius Nasta’ National Institute of Pulmonology, BucharestStefan-Sebastian BusnatuLecturer, M.D., Carol Davila’ UMF, BucharestSpecialist Physician Cardiology, ‘Bagdasar Arseni’ Emergency Hospital, BucharestCristina CapusaAssociate Professor Univ. M.D. ‘Carol Davila’ UMF, Department of Nephrology, BucharestPrimary Care Physician Internal Medicine and Nephrology, ‘Dr. Carol Davila’ Clinical Nephrology Hospital, Bucharest Maria CiocirlanSpecialist Physician Gastroenterology, Ponderas Academic Hospital, Bucharest Mihai CiocirlanLecturer, M.D. ‘Carol Davila’ UMF, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, BucharestPrimary Care Physician Gastroenterology, ‘Agrippa Ionescu’ Emergency Hospital Bucharest Andrada CosoreanuResident Physician Diabetes, Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases, ‘Nicolae Malaxa’ Clinical Hospital, Bucharest Mihai Mircea DiculescuProf. Univ. M.D. ‘Carol Davila’ UMF, Department of Gastroenterology, BucharestPrimary Care Physician Gastroenterology and Internal Medicine, Fundeni Clinical Institute, Gastroenterology Clinic, Bucharest Alexandra DumitracheResident Physician Cardiology, ‘Sfantul Pantelimon’ Emergency Hospital, Bucharest Oana Gheorghe-FroneaAssociate Professor Univ. M.D. ‘Carol Davila’ UMF, BucharestPrimary Care Physician Cardiology, Emergency Hospital, Bucharest Ioan HanesGeneral Practitioner with competence in Clinical Nutrition, Clinical Sexologist, Head of Obesity Department ‘MeNuFit” of the Military Hospital, Brussels, BelgiumSecretary General of the European Lifestyle Medicine Organization (ELMO) Anca Mihaela HancuGeneral Practitioner, Medical Director and Associate ‘Nutriscience’ Clinic, BucharestPresident – Medical Association for prevention through lifestyle medicine Valeria HerdeaAffiliate of UMF ST Targu-MuresPrimary Care Physician Family MedicinePresident of the Romanian Association for Paediatric Education in Family Medicine (AREPMF) Andrea-Elena LacraruAssistant Professor Univ. M.D. ‘Carol Davila’ UMF, BucharestSpecialist Physician Cardiology ‘Bagdasar Arseni’ Emergency Hospital, Bucharest Monica MarcLecturer, M.D., ‘Victor Babes’ UMF, Department of Pulmonology, TimisoaraPrimary Care Physician Pulmonology, ‘Victor Babes’ Hospital for Infectious Diseases and Pneumophtysiology, Timisoara Corina Gabriela MeianuAssistant Professor Univ., ‘Carol Davila’ UMF, Department of Gastroenterology, BucharestSpecialist Physician Gastroenterology, Fundeni Clinical Institute, Gastroenterology Clinic, Bucharest Florin MihaltanProf. Univ. M.D. ‘Carol Davila’ UMF, Department of Pulmonology, BucharestMember of the Romanian Medical AcademyPrimary Care Physician Pulmonology, ‘Marius Nasta’ Institute of Pneumophtsiology, Bucharest Cornelia NitipirProf. Univ. M.D. ‘Carol Davila’ UMF, BucharestResident Case Physician Oncology, Elias Emergency University Hospital, Bucharest Maria-Alexandra PanaAssistant Professor Univ. M.D., ‘Carol Davila’ UMF, BucharestResident Physician Cardiology ‘Bagdasar Arseni’ Emergency Hospital, Bucharest Andreea ParosanuResident Physician Oncology, Elias Emergency University Hospital, Bucharest Diana Loreta PaunAssociate Professor Univ. M.D. ‘Carol Davila’ UMF, BucharestPrimary Care Physician Endocrinology, ‘C.I. Parhon’ National Institute of Endocrinology, Bucharest Ana Maria PopaAssistant Professor Univ. M.D., ‘Carol Davila’ UMF, BucharestResident Physician Oncology, Elias Emergency University Hospital, Bucharest Carmen Monica PredaLecturer, M.D., ‘Carol Davila’ UMF, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, BucharestPrimary Care Physician Gastroenterology, Fundeni Clinical Institute, Gastroenterology Clinic, Bucharest Gabriela RadulianProf. Univ. M.D., ‘Carol Davila’ UMF, BucharestPrimary Care Physician Diabetes, Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases, National Institute for Diabetes, Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases ‘Prof. N. Paulescu’, Bucharest Armand RajnoveanuLecturer, M.D., ‘Iuliu Hatieganu’ UMF, Department of Occupational Medicine, Cluj-NapocaOccupational Medicine Physician, Country Emergency Hospital, Cluj-Napoca Ruxandra-Mioara RajnoveanuLecturer, M.D., ‘Iuliu Hatieaganu, UMF, Cluj-Napoca, Department of PulmonologySpecialist Physician Pulmonology, ‘Leon Daniello’ Hospital for Pneumophtysiology, Cluj-Napoca Gabriela RomanProf. Univ. M.D., ‘Iuliu Hatieganu’ UMF, Diabetes and Nutritional Diseases Department, Cluj-NapocaSenior Physician Diabetes, Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases, Clinical Centre for Diabetes, Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases, Cluj-Napoca Emilia RusuLecturer, M.D., ‘Carol Davila’ UMF, BucharestPrimary Care Physician Diabetes, Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases, ‘Nicolae Malaxa’ Clinical Hospital, Bucharest Crina Julieta SinecscuProf. Univ. M.D., ‘Carol Davila’ UMF, BucharestHead of Cardiology Clinic, ‘Bagdasar Arseni’ Emergency Hospital, Bucharest Cristina Orlov SlavuSpecialist Physician Oncology, Elias Emergency University Hospital, Bucharest Andreea-Cezara SoysalerAssistant Professor Univ. M.D., ‘Carol Davila’ UMF, BucharestSpecialist Physician Internal Medicine, ‘Bagdasar Arseni’ Emergency Hospital, BucharestAlina-Madalina TeasaAssistant Professor Univ. M.D., ‘Carol Davila’ UMF, BucharestResident Physician Cardiology, ‘Bagdasar Arseni’ Emergency Hospital, Bucharest Adina TrandafirGenetician, Founder of ‘Nutriscience’ Clinic, Bucharest Emanuala TudoracheLecturer, M.D., ‘Victor Babes’ UMF, Department of Pulmonology, TimisoaraPrimary Care Physician Pulmonology, Hospital for Infectious Diseases and Pneumophtysiology ‘Dr. Victor Babes’, Pulmonology Clinic, Timisoara Voicu TudoracheProf. Univ. M.D., ‘Victor Babes’ UMF, TimisoaraPrimary Care Physician Pneumonology, Hospital for Infectious Diseases and Pneumophtysiology ‘Dr. Victor Babes’, Timisoara For any further clarifications you may require please contact us at secretariat@eulm.org