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Autoimmune Disease
Published in Gia Merlo, Kathy Berra, Lifestyle Nursing, 2023
Nanette Morales, Jessica Landry, Christy McDonald Lenahan, Janine Santora
Although traditionally managed with conventional pharmaceuticals, lifestyle therapies are a remarkable preventative and therapeutic approach to reduce inflammation and chronic disease (Bodai, 2017). Lifestyle medicine focuses on prevention, which may improve quality of life, prevent or reverse disease, and extend lives. Nutrition, psychological health, and physical activity all play a crucial role in the development and progression of inflammatory-based autoimmune disease states.
Optimal Nutrition for Women
Published in Michelle Tollefson, Nancy Eriksen, Neha Pathak, Improving Women's Health Across the Lifespan, 2021
Kayli Anderson, Kaitlyn Pauly, Debra Shapiro, Vera Dubovoy
The American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) is the medical professional society for those dedicated to the advancement and clinical practice of Lifestyle Medicine as the foundation of a transformed and sustainable healthcare system. Lifestyle Medicine is the use of evidence-based lifestyle therapeutic approaches, such as a predominantly whole food, plant-based diet, regular physical activity, adequate sleep, stress management, avoidance of risky substance use, and other non-drug modalities, to prevent, treat, and oftentimes reverse a disease. In 2018, the ACLM published its official statement on the role of diet in Lifestyle Medicine. The statement reads, “For the treatment, reversal and prevention of lifestyle-related chronic disease, the ACLM recommends on eating plant based predominantly on a variety of minimally processed vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, nuts, and seeds.”77 An abundance of evidence exists to suggest that plant-predominant dietary patterns have the power to prevent chronic disease, and when used as an intervention, can even treat and reverse certain diseases, including cardiovascular disease, obesity, and type 2 diabetes.37,78–79
Physical Activity and Health
Published in James M. Rippe, Manual of Lifestyle Medicine, 2021
What individuals do in their daily lives profoundly impacts on short- and long-term health and quality of life. This is the essence of lifestyle medicine. These habits include proper nutrition, regular physical activity, weight management, avoiding tobacco products, and many other practices—all of which we have lumped together under the umbrella term “lifestyle medicine” (1).
Impact of interventions targeting anxiety and depression in adults with asthma
Published in Journal of Asthma, 2022
Caitlin Cooley, Yaejin Park, Olusola Ajilore, Alex Leow, Sharmilee M. Nyenhuis
Medication and psychological interventions are first-line treatments for mental health disorders (e.g., depression, anxiety). Psychological interventions such as cognitive behavioral therapy guides the patient to challenge the validity of maladaptive thoughts and behaviors and is widely used for depression and anxiety disorders (19,20). Lifestyle medicine and completementary and alternative medicine may offer potentially safe and low-cost treatment options. Lifestyle medicine can encompass many different areas including the adoption of evidence-based physical activity or exercise, dietary modification, relaxation, breathing exercises, mindfulness-based meditation techniques, spiritual healing and the reduction or cessation of recreational substances (e.g., nicotine, drugs, and alcohol) (21). Complementary and Alternative Medicine can include treatments such as acupuncture and craniosacral therapy which may be attractive to patients wanting a holistic treatment approach. The overall goal of this scoping review is to understand the current evidence in managing depression and/or anxiety symptoms in adults with asthma and identify research gaps in this understudied area.
The value of ‘expert trainees’ in primary care postgraduate education
Published in Education for Primary Care, 2020
Emma Thurston, Emer Forde, Clare Wedderburn
I benefitted from the opportunity to teach as an ‘expert trainee’ alongside other experts. Lifestyle medicine is such an important speciality – both for the wellbeing of doctors themselves and to equip them with key knowledge and skills to help them discuss lifestyle changes with their patients. Overall, I found the experience extremely positive. Formal feedback showed that my peers found it highly useful and were as satisfied with the teaching as they were with the workshops led by local and national specialists. For example, 14/17 (82%) reported they were likely/very likely to recommend the session to a colleague (range for other workshops 77%-88%) and that the session was engaging/very engaging. 89% thought workshop resources were relevant and accessible/very relevant and accessible. Qualitative feedback regarding what was most useful about the workshop included ‘list of useful apps to enable us to encourage patients to use to promote wellbeing’. Qualitative feedback from attendees advising what they would have liked to have learned more about included: ‘I expected something on managing the negative effects of technology/social media’ and ‘online resources other than apps’. This feedback will be used to improve the session for any future workshops.
Teaching evidence-based lifestyle management in family medicine training
Published in Education for Primary Care, 2018
Magdalena Pasarica, Denise Kay
There is strong evidence that lifestyle changes, including nutrition and activity, contribute to the prevention and treatment of chronic diseases [1]. Obesity is the cause or an aggravating factor for many of these. The US Preventive Services Task Force recommends that primary care providers screen all adults for obesity and manage them with intensive multicomponent behavioral interventions [2]. However, primary care physicians are still hesitant to suggest lifestyle changes in their management, reporting lack of knowledge and confidence with these types of interventions and available tools [3]. Lifestyle medicine (LM) is an evidence-based science that uses lifestyle changes in the prevention and treatment of chronic non-communicable diseases [4]. Incorporating LM in Undergraduate Medical Education (UME) represents ‘an acute and timely need’ [5]. Research reports on the impact of LM educational interventions are scant.