Lifestyle

DENVER — A lifestyle medicine approach can address gaps in pediatric obesity care, according to presenters at the annual American College of Lifestyle Medicine’s annual meeting.

In this episode, host Shikha Jain, MD, speaks with Amy Comander, MD, about incorporating lifestyle changes for cancer patients, developing lifestyle pathways for survivors and more.

DENVER — The lifestyle medicine model makes good business sense, but a business plan is needed to make it a logical decision for your organization, a speaker said here.

DENVER — Providers at Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center have developed a successful shared medical appointment model to deliver lifestyle medicine counseling to cancer survivors.

DENVER — Addiction expert Anna Lembke, MD, invited the Lifestyle Medicine 2023 health care audience to do a 24-hour fast from their smartphones and other digital devices.

DENVER — Incorporating food as medicine “from the start” into health care practice empowers providers with a key tool for impacting overall health of their patients, Kofi D. Essel, MD, MPH, FAAP, said at Lifestyle Medicine 2023.

DENVER – The creators of a 7-part webinar series sought to overcome barriers to integrating lifestyle medicine into oncology practice.

DENVER — “Behavior change is at the heart of lifestyle medicine,” and the “coach approach” in clinical practice allows a health care professional to work with the patient to make positive health lifestyle changes, according to an expert.

In this interview, Dean Ornish, MD, DipABLM, FACLM, founder and president of the non-profit Preventive Medicine Research Institute, says asking patients why they want to live longer can help fill their lives with meaning.

Adhering to a healthy lifestyle could reduce coronary heart disease risk regardless of genetic susceptibility to abdominal obesity, according to the results of research published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.