Lifestyle Medicine
Mechanick, Jeffrey I.; Kushner, Robert F.
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Description for Lifestyle Medicine
Hardback. Num Pages: 379 pages, 20 black & white illustrations, 20 colour illustrations, 77 black & white tables, 28 colo. BIC Classification: MB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 279 x 210 x 26. Weight in Grams: 1173.
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. But here’s the challenge: health care professionals receive very little, if any, formal training about lifestyle counseling and therefore are ill equipped to incorporate lifestyle issues into clinical practice. In response, “Lifestyle Medicine” is evolving as a means to fill this knowledge gap. Lifestyle medicine approaches health and wellness by harnessing the power of lifestyle-related behaviors and influencing the environment we live in. It is a formal ... Read more
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. But here’s the challenge: health care professionals receive very little, if any, formal training about lifestyle counseling and therefore are ill equipped to incorporate lifestyle issues into clinical practice. In response, “Lifestyle Medicine” is evolving as a means to fill this knowledge gap. Lifestyle medicine approaches health and wellness by harnessing the power of lifestyle-related behaviors and influencing the environment we live in. It is a formal ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
379
Condition
New
Number of Pages
363
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319246857
SKU
V9783319246857
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Ref
99-3
About Mechanick, Jeffrey I.; Kushner, Robert F.
Jeffrey I. Mechanick, M.D. Clinical Professor of MedicineDirector, Metabolic SupportDivision of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Bone DiseaseIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York NY Robert F. Kushner, MDProfessor of MedicineNorthwestern University Feinberg School of MedicineNorthwestern Comprehensive Center on ObesityChicago, IL, USA
Reviews for Lifestyle Medicine
“In 32 chapters the authors review the influence of lifestyle on medical conditions, but more important is how changes in lifestyle may improve these diseases. An interesting approach which has led to formation of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. For clinical practitioners.” (Pediatric Endocrinology Reviews (PER), Vol. 14 (2), December, 2016) “Each chapter is a standalone monograph with ... Read more