Empowering Health through Lifestyle Medicine: The Essential Guide for Preventing and Managing Chronic Disease is an evidenced-based health discipline for use by anyone in the healthcare profession including clinicians and public health and for those researching illness prevention and chronic disease management to improve health research practice and patient outcomes. Combining the best available research with personal insights and experience and using the Lifestyle Medicine 6 pillar framework, the book engages readers not only in the description and efficacy of LM but also in the knowledge, concepts and behaviors to better prevent and manage nutrition, physical activity, stress, mental health as well our interaction with the environment for a healthier, happier life. This is a book should encourage clinicians to engage their patients more often and more practically with lifestyle medicine, and consumers to better engage with their clinicians, and to more effectively self-manage their own health in preventing and managing lifestyle-related illness for life.
Table of Contents
1. Defining and describing Lifestyle Medicine: Why the need to know it2. Population perspective & health inequality
3. Personal vs public health
4. Risks and barriers to good health
5. Life course
6. Pillar 1: Nutrition and diet for a healthy life: What we know and how you can use the knowledge
7. Pillar 2: Physical activity and exercise: What we know and how you can use the knowledge
8. Pillar 3: Sleep: What we know and how you can use the knowledge
9. Pillar 4: Excessive stress and its management: What we know and how you can use the knowledge
10. Pillar 5 (Part 1): Mental health
11. Pillar 5 (Part 2): Healthy Relationships with other people and the natural environment: What we know and how you can use the knowledge
12. Pillar: 6 Harmful substances: What we know and how you can use the knowledge
13. Lifestyle Medicine and First Nations Peoples Health
14. How to communicate Lifestyle Medicine with your health care team
15. Future health and health care
Authors
John Anthony Stevens Southern Cross University, Australia.John Stevens is a health scientist and Associate Professor with Southern Cross University's School of Health and Human Sciences in Australia. In 2008 John co-founded the Australian Society of Lifestyle Medicine LTD. He is one of Australia's emerging leaders and experts in illness prevention and chronic disease management. He has over 30 years of experience and ~60 peer reviewed publications. He's part of True Health Initiative, a global coalition of world-renowned experts.
www.lifestylemedicine.org.au
