Lifestyle Medicine

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

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.

• Endocrinology
• Lifestyle changes
• case study
• metabolic disease
• wellness
• liver disease
• alcohol misuse
• cancer
• Sleep
• diabetes

“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)

• New York, USA

  Jeffrey I. Mechanick

• Chicago, USA

  Robert F. Kushner

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 

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