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Sixty seconds on . . . lifestyle advice

BMJ 2023; 381 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.p1323 (Published 09 June 2023) Cite this as: BMJ 2023;381:p1323
  1. Elisabeth Mahase
  1. The BMJ

This sounds important—I’d better delay my jog

You may well want a sit down, especially if you’re tasked with delivering healthy lifestyle messages to patients on exercising more, losing weight, and stopping smoking. The onus on improving the population’s health seems to be falling increasingly to doctors, particularly as government policies have all but failed on certain issues such as stemming obesity rates, often because of fears about …

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