# Prevention – Healthy Living Polypill

**URL:** <https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/prevention-healthy-living-polypill/693>\
**Category:** Insurance\
**Tags:** exercise, epidemiology, weight-loss\
**Created:** [May 1, 2017, 11:36pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/prevention-healthy-living-polypill/693 "2017-05-01T23:36:52Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 1, 2017, 11:36pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/prevention-healthy-living-polypill/693/1 "2017-05-01T23:36:52Z")

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**Preventing Bad and Expensive Things From Happening by Taking the Healthy Living Polypill: Everyone Needs This Medicine** by Ross Arena, PhD, PT College of Applied Health Sciences University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago, IL et Carl J. Lavie, MD, Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, Ochsner Clinical School-the University of Queensland School of Medicine New Orleans, LA; Mayo Clinical Proceedings; [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mayocp.2017.02.005](http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mayocp.2017.02.005) [www.mayoclinicproceedings.org](http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org)

It is time to recognize that the best medicine we have for improving population health consists of

- physically moving more
- eating nutritiously
- not smoking
- maintaining an appropriate body weight

Regardless of the future course of health care delivery and reimbursement systems in the United States, these 4 essential characteristics to one’s optimal healthspan should be the foundation of any health care system moving forward.