What is LifeStyle Medicine ?
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Lifestyle medicine
Lifestyle Medicine involves the use of evidence-based lifestyle therapeutic approaches, such as a predominantly whole food, plant-based diet, regular physical activity, adequate sleep, stress management, avoidance of risky substance use, and other non-drug modalities, to prevent, treat, and, oftentimes, reverse the lifestyle-related, chronic disease that's all too prevalent. It empowers individuals with the knowledge and life skills to make effective behavior changes that address the underlying causes of disease.
Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, as stated in the preamble to the Constitution of the World Health Organization from 1946.
Lifestyle Medicine clinicians emphasize the use of lifestyle intervention in the treatment of disease.
Clinical research provides overwhelming evidence for the preferential use of lifestyle interventions as first-line therapy. This research moves lifestyle from prevention only to include efficacious treatment—from an intervention used to prevent disease to an intervention used to treat and even reverse disease. This represents a fundamental change in the way the medical establishment views ‘lifestyle medicine,’ although, despite the substantial VOLUME OF evidence, it’s a view that has not yet been universally adopted.
Investigate more at The American College of Lifestyle Medicine The Evidence
BELOW ARE LINKS TO ADDITIONAL RESOURCES and information on transitioning to a HEALTHIER lifestyle INCLUDING DOCUMENTARIES, COOKING AND RECIPE SITES
Forks Over Knives: A Beginners Guide to the Plant-Based Diet and see the video documentary for free at this link.
Physician Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) : The 21-Day Vegan Kickstart Program
T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition: The author of The China Study fame
ACLM Plant Based Nutrition Reports : In this series of reports, ACLM has compiled the evidence supporting the benefits of a whole food, predominantly plant-based diet in multiple medical conditions including auto-immunity, obesity/weight loss and chronic kidney disease.
The Disease Reversal and Prevention Digest : a biannual online magazine
SWICH: A free online Plant-Based Cooking School customized to your taste
CHEF AJ : popular chef and author of The Secrets To Ultimate Weight Loss
PLANTWISE : The documentary that demonstrates the power of a healthy diet to reverse chronic disease ! and after the film , more resources ! courtesy of AdventHealth and Ardmore Institute
CODE BLUE : The acclaimed documentary about Dr Saray Stancics’ battle with MS and how she overcame it with aggressive lifestyle changes.
and Dr Saray Stancics’ personal lifestyle medicine website
CREATION Life is AdventHealths’ faith-based whole-person health care program. Comprised of lifestyle seminars teaching the eight principles of wellness—for those who want to live healthier and happier lives.
The Game Changers Documentary : The movie produced by Arnold Schwarzenegger that explains why meat eating is actually deleterious to being physically fit
Milton Mills MD : Plant Based Nation an African American physicians’ perspective
Diabetes Undone : A comprehensive teaching program on diabetes
Brenda Davis,R.D certified dietician nutritionist author and national speaker
Harvard Health Publishing : A 6-Week Plan For Healthy Eating from Harvard Medical School
The Portfolio Diet : A modified vegetarian diet with aggressive cholesterol lowering properties.
see the official recommendations for physical activity at the National Guidelines link.
Vibrant Life Magazine : Vibrant Life has health information that will help you move closer to the life we were designed to live. It introduces the Christian approach to whole-person health and God’s plan for us to have harmony of mind, body, and spirit.
The Lift Project is an “evidence-based” program that draws together studies from Neuroscience, Lifestyle Medicine and Positive Psychology improving depression symptoms, anxiety, stress and overall subjective wellbeing and mood. endorsed by The American College of Lifestyle Medicine .
NewStart Residential Lifestyle Program:
Offering live in 1-3 week immersion programs for more intensive lifestyle intervention.
“It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind... So I am living without fats, without meat, without fish, and am feeling quite well this way. It always seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore.”