Healthy Lifestyle

1. Lifestyle behaviors during pregnancy and health risk of offspring at birth and early childhood.- 2. The role of healthy lifestyle in the primordial prevention of metabolic syndrome throughout lifetime: what we know and what we need to know.-  3. Different aspects of lifestyle genomics in health and disease.-  4. Impact of behavioral adversities during life on individual's long-term heath status.- 5. The role of dietary habits on risk factors of chronic non-communicable diseases.- 6. Physical activity and prevention of chronic health problems.-   7. Exercise, health, longevity and social media: a discourse.- 8. Sleep duration and quality in life periods in development and progress of chronic diseases.- 9. The role active and passive smoking in the progress of chronic diseases.- 10. Shisha smoking - behaviour with health and social implications, affecting all ages.- 11. Risk factors and lifestyle habits leading to alcohol consumption from youth.- 12. Lifestyle factors, depression, anxiety and stress related to the internet addiction among school children.- 13.The new life after confinement: why should we increasingly maintain an active and healthy lifestyle?.- 14.Exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals, part of lifestyle factors related to growth disorders in childhood and chronic diseases in adulthood.

Professor Roya Kelishadi is a specialist in Pediatrics, working as a faculty member of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences in Iran. Over her 25-year career, she focused on primordial/primary prevention of non-communicable diseases. She is the founder and chair of the Research Institute for Primordial Prevention of Non-Communicable Disease, as well as the founder and chair of the Child Growth and Development Research Center affiliated to Isfahan University of Medical Sciences. She is also the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Preventive Medicine.
Dr. Kelishadi combines her clinical and research background for prevention and control of risk behaviors and risk factors of adult diseases from the pediatric age. Her studies are focused on lifestyle and environmental factors related to the early life origins of adult chronic diseases. Moreover, her studies have highlighted the role of environmental pollutants and obesogen chemicals on the development of obesity and metabolic syndrome.
Dr. Kelishadi has received several national and provincial awards. From 2014 till now, she has been one of the top 1% scientists of the ISI Thomson Reuters with more than 750 papers in peer-reviewed journals. She has published 29 books including international books and chapters. She had more than 400 presentations in congresses, and has been an international guest speaker in some of them. She has served as WHO temporary adviser for prevention and control of childhood obesity and for primary prevention of non-communicable diseases.