Four lifestyle choices may help reduce risk of chronic disease.

The Los Angeles Times reports, "If people would just do four things -- engage in regular physical activity, eat a healthy diet, not smoke, and avoid becoming obese -- they could slash their risk of diabetes, heart attack, stroke or cancer by 80 percent," CDC researchers found. "But less than 10 percent of the 23,153 people in the multiyear study -- published in Monday's Archives of Internal Medicine -- actually lived their lives this way." Further participants "who followed all four lifestyle factors had a 78 percent lower risk of developing a chronic disease than those with no healthy factors.”  Comment:  Ts is not much different to the Alameda Study on lifestyles published 35 years ago by Anne Somers et al, where they pinpointed nine behaviors, that if followed ensured 11 years extra quality life. Unfortunately the knowledge about behaviors has not translated into change,  Behavioral Medicine, like Economics, is a “Dismal Science” The major problem is that most people do not want some government agency to tell them how to live.  Further just as with other addiction than food, such as tobacco and alcohol, long term change is rare...