The Lifestyle Medicine Handbook: An Introduction to the Power of Healthy Habits is a well-researched and practical resource for anyone who wants to know more about the field of lifestyle medicine. Blending lifestyle medicine knowledge with clinical examples, this cutting-edge book offers a comprehensive overview of the eight pillars of lifestyle medicine. Published in collaboration with the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, this handbook is designed to introduce individuals and practitioners at all levels to the importance of daily habits and actions in health and quality of life.

The Lifestyle Medicine Handbook: An Introduction to the Power of Healthy Habits

James A. Peterson

Beth Frates

MD Jonathan P. Bonnet

Richard Joseph

PHD.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Healthy Learning

Review\nA book for our times! The Teen Lifestyle Medicine Handbook is a wonderful way to introduce the power of healthy living to teens in middle school and high school. Created in collaboration with the American College of Lifestyle Medicine with a team of experts, including pediatricians, teachers, lifestyle medicine practitioners, and a student, it is fact-based yet highly engaging and entertaining! Students, teachers, parents, grandparents, coaches, and mentors will enjoy learning and sharing the information presented in this information-packed book. --Dexter W. Shurney, MD, MBA, MPH, FACLM, DipABLM; President, American College of Lifestyle Medicine\nOur kids provide us with a unique window of opportunity to promote health and prevent disease. Despite a century of efforts, heart disease continues to be the leading cause of death. Currently, the prevalence of majority of cardiovascular risk factors is around or above 20% among American youth! As per the recent 2020 American Heart Association statistics, the signal for the Healthy Diet Index amongst American kids ages 2-19 is almost undetectable. This is at a time when diet-induced risk is the leading cause of disease, disability, and death. This is also at a time when 7 in 10 young people are failing to qualify for military service due to obesity. The current risk factor burden among American youth is considered a national security threat! The onus is on all of us in healthcare and the society at large to bring about a paradigm shift. There is no place better to start, than our kids. This book by Dr. Frates and the American College of Lifestyle Medicine team is a great resource to empower our youth with the tools and the pillars of lifestyle medicine to lead healthy and productive lives. --Koushik Reddy, MD, FACLM; Director, Interventional Cardiology, Tampa VA Hospital\nThe Teen Lifestyle Medicine Handbook is an amazing resource, packed with evidence-based information that will introduce teens to the importance of developing healthy habits. This book is highly engaging and provides teens with knowledge that will empower them to make their own SMART choices. As a physician and mother, I am thrilled to share copies of The Teen Lifestyle Medicine Handbook with my children and their friends, as well as parents and teachers. --Amy Comander, MD; Medical Director, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center at Waltham (MA)\nTeens are holding a bad hand. Not only have they inherited a climate crisis, but the health of the planet isn’t the only thing at risk. In fact, the current generation of young people is on track to be less healthy and live shorter lives than their parents. By age 10, nearly all kids already have fatty streaks in their arteries, which is the first sign of atherosclerosis, the leading cause of death in the United States. And, what was once known as “adult-onset diabetes” is now referred to as “type 2 diabetes.” Why? Because grown-ups aren’t the only ones to get it these days. The disease is now found in children, too. While it’s hard to hear and even harder to believe, more and more children and teens are experiencing long-term, chronic, and reoccurring diseases. Is this every teen’s fate? Are they inevitable, or can they be prevented? 
The fact that many chronic diseases, once thought to only affect adults, have been increasing in prevalence in adolescents, is alarming. Many of these diseases also happen to be preventable, though preventing disease is only the start of the benefits lifestyle medicine offers. Practicing lifestyle medicine principles, such as participating in physical activity, eating mostly whole, plant-based foods, and minimizing stress, can positively influence mental well-being, academic performance, and even athletic performance! 
The Teen Lifestyle Medicine Handbook: The Power of Healthy Living was written for teens to not only educate them in lifestyle medicine principles, but more so to

The Teen Lifestyle Medicine Handbook: The Power of Healthy Living

Brittany Plaven

Beth Watts

Neeta Agarwal

Michelle Dalal

Kaitlyn Tollefsen

Product Description 
The 
Lifestyle Medicine Handbook, 2nd ed, is for anyone who wants to learn the key factors involved in lifestyle medicine. It is designed as an introductory book that will explore the history of lifestyle medicine, as well as its six pillars, including nutrition, exercise, sleep, stress resiliency, addiction, and social connection. The research, guidelines, clinical cases, and prescriptions for each of the pillars are addressed. In addition, this book details the importance of collaborating with the patient and using a coach approach when counseling people about adopting and sustaining healthy habits. Furthermore, the text reviews the important role of the stages of behavior change, motivational interviewing, appreciative inquiry, positivity, a strengths-based approach, a growth mindset, and other evidence-based models for change. 
 One of the reasons that this book is unique is because each chapter provides updated medical information and cutting-edge research on the topic addressed. It also features a series of Live and Learns as a way to share best practices in lifestyle medicine. Similar to M&M or Morbidity and Mortality conferences in general medicine, this groundbreaking text offers L&L or Live and Learns as a viable means to focus on different strategies to empower people and guide them on the path to optimal health and wellness. 
 This handbook is an attempt to introduce basic lifestyle medicine principles and to create a team of like-minded practitioners who will continue to collaborate with the goal of transforming healthcare and reducing the burden of lifestyle-related diseases on the individual level, as well as on the local and global levels. As such, this book is designed to get the basic information related to lifestyle medicine into the hands of as many people as possible.\nIn collaboration with her three co-authors, renowned Harvard physician Beth Frates wrote this book to both inform and inspire individuals about the extensive array of benefits that are attendant to adhering to healthy habits. If this book helps a single reader to prevent or reverse a chronic health disease, then the effort to put it together will have been more than worthwhile. Enjoy! 
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If you want to be happy and healthy for the rest of your life, spend an hour or two with Dr. Frates. If you can't do that, then buy her cutting-edge handbook, which packs atomic power and does so with love, humor, and inspirational energy. Dr. Frates is on a mission. She wants to save us all from our ignorant habits and free us to be our happiest, healthiest selves. She has the knowledge, skill, and love-of-us all to do it. She's a powerhouse coach, like her mother, and for the price of this little lightsaber, you can carry her around with you. What a deal! --Edward Hallowell, MD; Author of Delivered from Distraction\nDr. Frates knowledge, insights, dedication, and just plain humanity place her in the vanguard of the global lifestyle medicine movement. This handbook is a worthy, signature contribution to the field from this rising leader. --David L. Katz, MD, MPH, FACPM, FACP, FACLM; Author of Disease-Proof: The Remarkable Truth About What Makes Us Well\nThe 
Lifestyle Medicine Handbook blends lifestyle medicine knowledge with rich clinical examples through the experienced voice of practitioner Dr. Beth Frates. The immense importance of compassion and coaching mindset in lifestyle medicine is well demonstrated throughout the manual. Seasoned lifestyle medicine practitioners, as well as those individuals who are new to the field, will relish the practical information and inspiration to support their everyday patient care. --Catherine L. Collings, MD, FACC, MS, DipABLM; Medical Director, Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation, Heart and Vascular Institute of El Camino Hospital (CA)

Lifestyle Medicine Handbook, 2nd ed

James Peterson

Jonathan Bonnet

PAVING the Path to Wellness Workbook is an easy-to-follow resource for anyone who wants to improve their overall well-being. In a step-by-step manner, this exceptional book explains how to make small lifestyle-related, health-enhancing changes—one step at a time. Featuring principles that are foundational for treating, as well as preventing, numerous health conditions, including from heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, and obesity, PAVING the Path to Wellness Workbook shares perspectives from three highly respected physicians, provides a wealth of important facts, and offers a compelling array of practical self-reflection exercises. The book details 12 specific steps--involving the body, mind, and spirit--that collectively empower individuals to achieve their goals of enjoying a happier and healthier life. PAVING the Path to Wellness Workbook is a must-have resource for healthcare providers and patients alike.

PAVING the Path to Wellness Workbook

Women in midlife and beyond are bombarded with multiple stressors: aging parents, children or childlessness, health issues, work, and home issues. To live a healthy and vibrant life, women must regroup and address their own wellness. The Paving the Path to Wellness Program is an amazing guide for women on this journey. The importance of nutritious food, sleep, mindfulness/stress reduction, and movement/exercise cannot be overemphasized, and will reap benefits in every aspect of health and disease prevention. For many women, the midlife transition, with its accompanying symptoms related to hormonal shifts, changes in relationships (such as aging parents and children leaving home), and increased awareness of the health challenges that may present in midlife and beyond, also provides a powerful opportunity to reassess and reengage with lifestyle factors that can improve health and well-being. Building on the previous PAVING the Path to Wellness Workbook by Drs. Frates, Tollefson, and Comander, this new program provides thoughtful questions that invite self-reflection and evidence-based information on the latest science regarding movement, nutrition, social connection, meaning, and purpose, as well as tools and strategies to support women in the implementation of practices that contribute to thriving in midlife and beyond. The depth and breadth of experience from the authors in their personal and professional lives and working with thousands of women is evident in this practical, thoughtful, and compassionate guide. This program is a great resource for both patients and clinicians. PAVING a Woman’s Path Through Menopause and Beyond is designed for every woman who wants to feel good about herself, while being empowered to live her healthiest life. Solid information and self-reflective activities, presented in a gentle and welcoming way, will inspire and guide the reader to choose her own path towards better health―through midlife and beyond.

PAVING a Woman’s Path Through Menopause and Beyond

Michelle Tollefson

Amy Comander

Women's Health

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