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Empowering Health through Lifestyle Medicine

The Essential Guide for Preventing and Managing Chronic Disease

  • 1st Edition - January 1, 2027
  • Latest edition
  • Author: John Anthony Stevens
  • Language: English

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 he… Read more

Description

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 behaviours to better prevent and manage nutrition, physical activity, stress, mental health as well our interaction with the environment for a healthier, happier life.

Key features

  • Presents a new paradigm and movement in health care required to sustain human health and improve patient outcomes
  • Explains the new world-wide movement of Lifestyle Medicine in an accessible manner for clinicians and public knowledge and skills to integrate LM into clinical practice if you are a Scientist or Clinician
  • Covers health quality impacts of sleep, stress, and environment and more

Readership

Researchers, clinicians and healthcare professionals

Table of contents

1. Defining and describing lifestyle medicine: Why we need to know it

2. Population health and health inequality

3. Navigating health risks in the Anthropocene

4. Metainflammation: Lifestyle medicine’s germ theory

5. Making us sick to make them rich: The commercial determinants of health and illness

6. Pillar 1: Nutrition for a healthy life. The associations between nutrition, health and lifestyle medicine

7. Pillar 2: Physical activity, health and lifestyle medicine

8. Pillar 3: Stress, distress and its prevention and management

9. Pillar 4: Sleep for a healthy life: The association between sleep, health and lifestyle medicine

10. Pillar 5: Harmful substance exposure and substance misuse, health and lifestyle medicine

11. Pillar 6: Social connection, health and lifestyle medicine

12. Pillar 7: Nature exposure and connection, health and lifestyle medicine

13. Empowering First Nations Health: Addressing health inequity and social determinants of health through Indigenous-led models of care

14. The evidence for shared medical appointments in lifestyle medicine practice

15. Health coaching, motivational interviewing and other ways of encouraging patient activation and self management

16. Best practice in lifestyle medicine for managing chronic illness into remission

17. GLP-1 receptor agonists and the management of metabolic health

18. Lifestyle medicine in the prevention and management of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias

19. Empowering health and health care with lifestyle medicine: A conclusion and a beginning

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: January 1, 2027
  • Language: English

About the author

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John Anthony Stevens

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

Affiliations and expertise
Southern Cross University, Australia