Fitness, Lifestyle Changes, and Wellness: Cardiometabolic Health

Market size of Global health club's industry is 83 billion, with over 200,000 clubs, and 160 million members worldwide. According to the Global Wellness Institute, the global wellness industry grew 10.6% from 2013 to 2015; from 3.6 trillion to 3.72 trillion market. The global corporate wellness market size was valued at USD 50 billion in 2017. According to the global wellness experts, the health and wellness industry is experiencing a “healthy” boom, - that is global anti-aging market is worth 250 billion in the US alone. As the theme of this mini review states, we would like to explore challenges and opportunities, in this growing area and take advantage of this huge fitness and wellness market trends, to develop an integrated preventive program, that will aim at a better health, as well as a healthy aging concept. Vascular diseases rank as the number one killer for decades. Development of preventive strategies, based on the modifiable risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD), identified by the Framingham Heart Study Group, has contributed significantly for the observed decline in heart disease related deaths worldwide. Having said that, we need to explain the discrepancy between the reported decline in CVD-related deaths, and the statement that CVD ranks the number one killer in the world. In our opinion, there is more to the mechanisms underlying vascular disease, than the modifiable risks identified by the Framingham Heart Group. In this overview, we would like to discuss the role of fitness, lifestyle changes, and wellness concept as they relate to the reduction, reversal, and prevention of metabolic diseases.