Jeffrey I. Mechanick & Robert F. Kushner 
Lifestyle Medicine [PDF ebook] 
A Manual for Clinical Practice

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Why Lifestyle Medicine?.- The importance of Healthy Living and Defining Lifestyle Medicine.- Communication and Behavioral Change Tools: A Primer for Lifestyle Medicine Counseling.- Paradigms of Lifestyle Medicine and Wellness.- Composite Risk Scores.- Clinical Assessment of Lifestyle and Behavioral Factors During Weight Loss Treatment.- Anthropometrics and Body Composition.- Physical Activity Measures.- Metabolic Profiles – Based on the 2013 Prevention Guidelines.- The Chronic Care Model and the Transformation of Primary Care.- Guidelines for Healthy Eating.- A Review of Commercial and Proprietary Weight Loss Programs.- Physical Activity Programs.- Behavior Modification and Cognitive Therapy.- Treating Tobacco Use in Clinical Practice.- Alcohol Use and Management.- Sleep Management.- Integrative Medicine.- Transcultural Applications to Lifestyle Medicine.- Community Engagement and Networks: Leveraging Partnerships to Improve Lifestyle.- Lifestyle Therapy as Medicine for the Treatment of Obesity.- Lifestyle Therapy for Diabetes Mellitus.- Lifestyle Therapy in the Management of Cardiometabolic Risk: Diabetes Prevention, Hypertension, and Dyslipidemia.- Cancer.- LIFESTYLE MEDICINE FOR THE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF DEPRESSION.- Promoting Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors in Patients with Persistent Pain.- Forestalling Age-Related Brain
Disorders.- Chronic Kidney Disease.- Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and steatohepatitis.- Gastroenterology Disease and Lifestyle Medicine.- Lifestyle Medicine and Chronic Pulmonary Disease.- Lifestyle Medicine and HIV-infected patients.

Über den Autor

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 Medicine

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine


Northwestern Comprehensive Center on Obesity


Chicago, IL, USA