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Includes a standard medical history, diet and lifestyle assessment, and often a referral for a fasting blood test. Nutrition and lifestyle prescriptions are incorporated into the consultation. The collaborative approach may involve the doctor, practice nurse, dietitian, exercise physiologist and other health practitioners. A long consultation is required. Lifestyle medicine may support conditions including obesity, high cholesterol, diabetes and prediabetes, hypertension, heart disease, arthritis pain and gastrointestinal disorders.
