Main description:

Lifestyle Medicine: Lifestyle, the Environment and Preventive Medicine in Health and Disease, Third Edition, is an adjunct approach to health practice that seeks to deal with the more complex modern determinants of chronic diseases-primarily lifestyle and the environments driving such lifestyles-in contrast to the microbial 'causes' of infectious disease.

Our lifestyle choices have a profound effect on our health. As we live longer, one thing is clear: many of us will spend time living with injury and chronic illness due to our own choices. Changes in health patterns typically follow shifts in living conditions. Disease patterns have changed worldwide, from infectious to chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. This change has been so emphatic-nearly 70% of all presentations to a doctor in modern western societies are now chronic disease related-that medical services are being forced to change to accommodate this.

New chapters in this third edition explain the link between energy intake and expenditure; consider how modern technology are determinants of chronic disease; show how environmental influences, such as endocrine disruptors, influence our health; and summarize recent research on early childhood experiences and chronic disease.

Contents:

Section I. Background and Basis for the role of lifestyle factors In chronic disease Prevention and Treatment 1. Introduction to the Role of Lifestyle Factors in Medicine 2. The Epidemiology of Chronic Disease 3. A "Germ Theory" Equivalent Approach for Lifestyle Medicine 4. A Structure for Lifestyle Medicine 5. Everything You Wanted to Know About Motivation (But Weren't Intrinsically Motivated Enough to Ask) 6. Self-Management in Lifestyle Medicine 7. Overweight and Obesity: The Epidemic's Underbelly

Section II. Lifestyle and Environmental Determinants of Chronic disease 8. Nutrition for the Nondietitian 9. Fluids, Fitness, and Fatness 10. Behavioral Aspects of Nutrition 11. Physical Activity: Generic Prescription for Health 12. Physical Activity: Specific Prescription for Disease Management and Rehabilitation 13. Stress: Its Role in the S-AD Phenomenon 14. Dealing With Worry and Anxiety 15. Depression 16. Happiness and Mental Health: The Flip Side of S-AD 17. Technology-Induced Pathology: Watch (This) Space 18. To Sleep, Perchance to ... Get Everything Else Right 19. Health and the Environment: Clinical Implications for Lifestyle Medicine 20. Meaninglessness, Alienation, and Loss of Culture/Identity (MAL) as Determinants of Chronic Disease 21. Preventing and Managing Injury at the Clinical Level 22. Rethinking Chronic Pain in a Lifestyle Medicine Context 23. Understanding Addictions: Tackling Smoking and Hazardous Drinking 24. Medicines: The Good, The Not So Good, and The Sometimes Overused 25. Relationships, Social Inequity, and Distal Factors in Lifestyle Medicine: Tackling the Big Determinants

Section III. Other issues for Lifestyle medicine 26. Sex and Lifestyle: Not Being Able to Get Enough of a Good Thing Because of a Lifetime of Getting Too Much of a Good Thing 27. Lifestyle and Oral Health 28. Lifestyle and Environmental Influences on Skin 29. Lifestyle-Related Aspects of Gastrointestinal Health

Section IV. The Future of Health 30. The Next Chapter: The Future of Health Care and Lifestyle Interventions