Health is not just our greatest wealth, but also our most important economic asset. This is why different lectures are devoted to this topic on the "Day of Health" during the MEDICA ECON FORUM by TK. Dr. Ralph Schomaker is the Medical Director at the Center for Sports Medicine in Münster, Germany. At MEDICA, he gave a lecture on sports, exercise and diet and their effect on diseases like diabetes.Dr. Schomaker, your lecture is titled "Health – How Does It Work?" Is there actually something like a secret recipe for health?Dr. Ralph Schomaker: A definition of health is not so easy. When we look back on evolution, we quickly realize that nowadays usually nobody dies from the original typical causes of death such as infectious diseases or starvation. These days we fall ill to lifestyle diseases. And these are self-inflicted – thanks to a diet that is not "species appropriate"...
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