Lifestyle medicine is no Trojan horse: it is an inclusive, evidence-based, and patient-focused movement

Abstract

We welcome positive aspects of Nunan et al's article 1 and the opportunity to briefly discuss their analysis. However, likening lifestyle medicine to a Trojan horse implies deception and malice; and is both unworthy and unjustified.There are important positive messages conveyed, for example, articulating many of lifestyle medicine's key drivers (Box 1), plus individual and public health-level interventions (Box 2). 1 However, there are important fallacies too and we seek to correct these: