Lifestyle medicine : a manual for clinical practice / Jeffrey I. Mechanick, Robert F. Kushner, editors.
| Other author | Mechanick, Jeffrey I., editor. |
| Other author | Kushner, Robert F., 1953- editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Cham, Switzerland : Springer International Publishing Switzerland, 2016. |
| Copyright Date | ©2016 |
| Description | xvi, 363 pages : illustrations, charts ; 28 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 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 -- Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and steatohepatitis-- Gastroenterology disease and lifestyle medicine -- Lifestyle medicine and chronic pulmonary disease -- Lifestyle medicine and HIV-infected patients. |
| Summary | "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...Lifestyle medicine approaches health and wellness by harnessing the power of lifestyle-related behaviors and influencing the environment we live in." -- From publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographic references (after each chapter) and an index. |
| Language | English |
| ISBN | 9783319246857 |
| ISBN | 3319246852 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Laupus | Books - Stacks | W 85 L722 2016 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |