Food, We Need To Talk 4 Health Changes That Prevent 80% of Disease
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Jan 19, 2026 Dr. Jonathan Bonnet, a lifestyle medicine physician with a background in exercise science, shares essential health insights. He highlights four major behaviors impacting wellness: smoking, obesity, physical activity, and diet. Discover the significance of finding your deeper 'why' for lasting change and the six pillars of lifestyle medicine. Jonathan emphasizes tiny habits over perfection, encouraging the value of connection and gradual progress. He advocates for starting today with small actions that lead to powerful health transformations.
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Quit Smoking First If You Smoke
- If you smoke, quit or cut back first because it's the highest-impact change.
- If you don't smoke, prioritize the other major behaviors like activity and diet.
Four Behaviors Drive Most Disease Risk
- Four simple behaviors (no smoking, BMI <30, 30 min/day activity, healthy diet) cut chronic disease risk dramatically.
- Doing all four vs none reduced chronic disease risk by ~80% in the EPIC study.
Focus On Behaviors, Not The Scale
- Weight is an outcome, not a behavior, so focus on modifiable actions instead of the scale.
- Build a lifestyle score around behaviors you control for lasting change.
