Managing chronic disease and improving overall wellness are increasingly common challenges for both individuals and our health care system as a whole. An estimated 85 percent of avoidable health care spending is attributed to behavioral factors and ineffective self-management of chronic disease.

Unhealthy lifestyle choices like poor diet, lack of physical activity and tobacco use are primary risk factors for most of the chronic diseases impacting our national wellbeing. So what needs to change, and how do we change it?

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