Description
Book SynopsisLifestyle – the manner in which people live – is fundamental to health, wellness, and prevention of disease. It follows that attention to lifestyle is critically important to effective and successful health care. But here’s the challenge: health care professionals receive very little, if any, formal training about lifestyle counseling and therefore are ill equipped to incorporate lifestyle issues into clinical practice. In response, “
Lifestyle Medicine” is evolving as a means to fill this knowledge gap. Lifestyle medicine approaches health and wellness by harnessing the power of lifestyle-related behaviors and influencing the environment we live in. It is a formal approach that promises to enhance and strengthen a re-invigorated health care system that is still outpaced by the epidemic proportions and complexity of chronic diseases like obesity, diabetes, depression, hypertension, and cancer, among others.
Lifestyle Medicine: A Manual for Clinical Practice presents this formal approach in a pragmatic context. This unique and practical manual provides clear and succinct guidance on nearly all aspects of lifestyle medicine. The approach is both explanatory and pragmatic, providing case studies and bulleted translation of academic information into clinical practice recommendations. There is an emphasis on scientific evidence wherever possible as well as opinions by the expert chapter authors who practice lifestyle medicine. There is a “how-to” rationality to the book, consistent with a premise that any and all health care professionals should, and perhaps must, incorporate lifestyle medicine. A valuable checklist is included at the close of the book that summarizes key points and provides a practical tool for routine patient encounters.
Trade Review“In 32 chapters the authors review the influence of lifestyle on medical conditions, but more important is how changes in lifestyle may improve these diseases. An interesting approach which has led to formation of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. For clinical practitioners.” (Pediatric Endocrinology Reviews (PER), Vol. 14 (2), December, 2016)
“Each chapter is a standalone monograph with an introduction, very short vignettes of a case history, followed by the psychological aspects, physical impact, some evidence-based management thoughts, resources, and references. … This book takes a comprehensive approach, covering many of areas that the single-issue monographs on this topic do not. As such this is a valuable overview that has tremendous value to primary care or specialist clinicians, and for supporting medical professionals such as nutritionists, physical therapists, and pharmacists.” (Vincent F. Carr, Doody's Book Reviews, July, 2016)
Table of ContentsChapter 1Why Lifestyle Medicine?
Chapter 2The Importance of Healthy Living and Defining Lifestyle Medicine
Chapter 3Communication and Behavioral Change Tools: A Primer for Lifestyle Medicine Counseling
Chapter 4Paradigms of Lifestyle Medicine and Wellness
Chapter 5Composite Risk Scores
Chapter 6Clinical Assessment of Lifestyle and Behavioral Factors During Weight Loss Treatment
Chapter 7Anthropometrics and Body Composition
Chapter 8Physical Activity Measures
Chapter 9Metabolic Profiles - Based on the 2013 Prevention Guidelines
Chapter 10 The Chronic Care Model and the Transformation of Primary Care
Chapter 11 Guidelines for Healthy Eating
Chapter 12A Review of Commercial and Proprietary Weight Loss Programs
Chapter 13Physical Activity Programs
Chapter 14Behavior Modification and Cognitive Therapy
Chapter 15Treating Tobacco Use in Clinical Practice
Chapter 16Alcohol Use and Management
Chapter 17Sleep Management
Chapter 18Integrative Medicine
Chapter 19Transcultural Applications to Lifestyle Medicine
Chapter 20Community Engagement and Networks: Leveraging Partnerships to Improve Lifestyle
Chapter 21Lifestyle Therapy as Medicine for the Treatment of Obesity
Chapter 22Lifestyle Therapy for Diabetes MellitusChapter 23Lifestyle Therapy in the Management of Cardiometabolic Risk: Diabetes Prevention, Hypertension, and Dyslipidemia
Chapter 24Cancer
Chapter 25
LIFESTYLE MEDICINE FOR THE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF DEPRESSION
Chapter 26 Promoting Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors in Patients with Persistent Pain
Chapter 27Forestalling Age-Related Brain Disordersiv>
Chapter 28
Chronic Kidney Disease
Chapter 29Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and steatohepatitis
Chapter 30Gastroenterology Disease and Lifestyle Medicine
Chapter 31Lifestyle Medicine and Chronic Pulmonary Disease
Chapter 32Lifestyle Medicine and HIV-infected patients
