Better lifestyles may require behavioral sciences [DallasNews.com]

Samantha Sangenito 2/26/154:00 AM

Most of our $3 trillion national health care bill is spent on lifestyle diseases. Cancer and diabetes, heart failure and arthritis may come from random changes in the body. But obesity, smoking and inactivity certainly contribute. Health care experts are realizing education isn’t enough to help people change. Behavioral science is needed — emotional, psychological, habit-breaking and habit-forming approaches.

It’s coming in a variety of ways.

Four soccer teammates wore fresh fruit and vegetable outfits Saturday to help Fort Worth launch an ambitious citywide wellness program called the Blue Zones Project.

[For more of this story, written by Jim Landers, go to http://www.dallasnews.com/busi...avioral-sciences.ece]

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