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Lifestyle Medicine

A Manual for Clinical Practice

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Editors:
  1. Jeffrey I. Mechanick

    1. New York, USA

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  2. Robert F. Kushner

    1. Chicago, USA

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  • First of its kind title covering a burgeoning field and offering a portfolio of paradigms, tools, models, and programs for the clinical practice of lifestyle medicine
  • Provides clear and succinct guidance on nearly all aspects of lifestyle medicine
  • Explanatory and pragmatic, providing case studies and bulleted translation of academic information into clinical practice recommendations
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (32 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Why Lifestyle Medicine?

    • Jeffrey I. Mechanick, Robert F. Kushner
    Pages 1-8

  3. The Importance of Healthy Living and Defining Lifestyle Medicine

    • Robert F. Kushner, Jeffrey I. Mechanick
    Pages 9-15

  4. Communication and Behavioral Change Tools: A Primer for Lifestyle Medicine Counseling

    • Robert F. Kushner, Jeffrey I. Mechanick
    Pages 17-28

  5. Paradigms of Lifestyle Medicine and Wellness

    • Robert Scales, Matthew P. Buman
    Pages 29-40

  6. Composite Risk Scores

    • Ruth E. Brown, Jennifer L. Kuk
    Pages 41-54

  7. Clinical Assessment of Lifestyle and Behavioral Factors During Weight Loss Treatment

    • David B. Sarwer, Kelly C. Allison, Rebecca J. Dilks
    Pages 55-64

  8. Anthropometrics and Body Composition

    • Dympna Gallagher, Claire Alexander, Adam Paley
    Pages 65-76

  9. Physical Activity Measures

    • David R. Bassett, Kenneth M. Bielak
    Pages 77-82

  10. Metabolic Profiles—Based on the 2013 Prevention Guidelines

    • Neil J. Stone, John Wilkins, Sakina Kazmi
    Pages 83-88

  11. The Chronic Care Model and the Transformation of Primary Care

    • Thomas Bodenheimer, Rachel Willard-Grace
    Pages 89-96

  12. Guidelines for Healthy Eating

    • Linda Van Horn
    Pages 97-104

  13. A Review of Commercial and Proprietary Weight Loss Programs

    • Nasreen Alfaris, Alyssa Minnick, Patricia Hong, Thomas A. Wadden
    Pages 105-120

  14. Physical Activity Programs

    • Damon Swift, Neil M. Johannsen, Timothy Church
    Pages 121-127

  15. Behavior Modification and Cognitive Therapy

    • John P. Foreyt, Craig A. Johnston
    Pages 129-134

  16. Treating Tobacco Use in Clinical Practice

    • Allison J. Carroll, Anna K. Veluz-Wilkins, Brian Hitsman
    Pages 135-150

  17. Alcohol Use and Management

    • Evan Goulding
    Pages 151-159

  18. Sleep Management

    • Kelly Glazer Baron, Leland Bardsley
    Pages 161-170

  19. Integrative Medicine

    • Melinda Ring, Leslie Mendoza Temple
    Pages 171-182

  20. Transcultural Applications to Lifestyle Medicine

    • Osama Hamdy, Jeffrey I. Mechanick
    Pages 183-190
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About this book

Lifestyle – 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.

Reviews

“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 medicalprofessionals such as nutritionists, physical therapists, and pharmacists.” (Vincent F. Carr, Doody's Book Reviews, July, 2016)

Editors and Affiliations

  • New York, USA

    Jeffrey I. Mechanick

  • Chicago, USA

    Robert F. Kushner

About the editors

Jeffrey I. Mechanick, M.D.

Clinical Professor of Medicine
Director, Metabolic Support
Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Bone Disease
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York NY






Robert F. Kushner, MD

Professor of MedicineNorthwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern Comprehensive Center on Obesity
Chicago, IL, USA 







Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Lifestyle Medicine

  • Book Subtitle: A Manual for Clinical Practice

  • Editors: Jeffrey I. Mechanick, Robert F. Kushner

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24687-1

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-24685-7Published: 30 March 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79659-8Published: 19 April 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-24687-1Published: 18 March 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 363

  • Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations, 20 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Endocrinology, Diabetes, Primary Care Medicine, General Practice / Family Medicine

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