Our goal is to improve Dutch healthcare by educating future doctors to use healthy food and lifestyle as medicine. This is important because already more than 50% of the Dutch population suffers from one or more lifestyle-related-diseases, such as overweight, depression and diabetes. And only through “lifestyle-medicine” can we solve these problems.
To achieve our goals we organise courses on “lifestyle-medicine” at all medical schools in the Netherlands, build a community of ambassadors of our vision and together with like-minded organisations we do everything to persuade all Dutch University Medical Centres and the government to implement lifestyle-medicine and education about it.
However, recently we realised that the grand challenge of a “lifestyle-medicine-transition” (similarly as the transition to a sustainable society and society) cannot be achieved by doctors alone. Instead, we need the multidisciplinary potential of the brightest students’ minds from many other disciplines - like business, psychology, philosophy and economics - to tackle this wicked problem and all become happier and healthier, together. As a first step on this endeavour we will organise - at the start of 2020 and together with the Leiden Delft Erasmus Centre for Sustainability and various companies - a multidisciplinary lecture series about healthy lifestyle and food leading up to the IFAMA Conference 2020.
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