Articles

2008-2009

October 2008:
Wes Youngberg,  DrPH, MPH, CNS, FACLM
Rancho Family Medical Group
Full Article 
article excerpt: Wes develops and conducts HMO and PPO based disease state management programs designed for optimal health improvement in high medical risk patients. The medical group serves 4,000 patients per month, with over 300 patients taking advantage of various LM clinics and seminars each month.

November 2008:
An Interview with Joel Fuhrman, MD
Full Article
article excerpt: Dr. Fuhrman teaches patients that, contrary to popular belief, we don’t have to live our lives in pain or on medication. Disease can be reversed, high blood pressure reduced, unwanted weight lost, cholesterol levels lowered, heart disease and cancer prevented, and health improved -- all without relying on drugs and fad diets.

January 2009:
Carrie Zvonar, DC, MS
Full Article
article excerpt: In order to motivate behavior change, there has to be a relationship where patients value your input and where they feel that you have their best interests at heart.  They want to be encouraged, and often need to be reminded of their successes, no matter how small, and they need to take ownership of their health.”

February 2009:
John Kelly, MD, MPH
Full Article
article excerpt: Expert application of evidence-based lifestyle interventions using proven group health education programs and techniques is his specialty, treating chronic diseases such as diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity, heart disease and high cholesterol. “In my practice, lifestyle changes truly are the treatment.”

March 2009:
DIGMAS: Interview with Dr. Ed Noffsinger
Full Article
article excerpt: The general term "group visit" is applied to a variety of models designed for groups of patients, rather than the traditional individual patient-provider appointments. Two primary models: DIGMA and PSMA are the result of Dr. Noffsinger's personal experience and professional expertise and are used extensively nationwide.

April 2009:
George E. Guthrie, MD, MPH, CDE, CNS and DIGMAS
Full Article
article excerpt: "Medical Practitioners tend to think that Lifestyle Medicine cannot be done in the office because no one pays for it," says Dr. Guthrie, "but that is not true." Payment is not the real limitation. It is really people's willingness and readiness to change that is the biggest barrier to LM."

May 2009:
Resources from AMA's Healthy Lifesteps Program
Full Article
article excerpt: This article highlights two programs of particular interest and service to practitioners of Lifestyle Medicine and the patients they serve. The AMA's Healthier Life Steps™ Program, and the EPoCH Program  offer tools, connections, and conversation to assist physicians and patients in the pursuit of healthy lifestyle changes.

June 2009:
ACLM Advisor Spotlight: Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., MD
Full Article
article excerpt: "Compelling data from nutritional studies, population surveys, and interventional studies supports the effectiveness of a plant-based diet and aggressive lipid-lowering to arrest, prevent, and selectively reverse heart disease...The single biggest step toward adopting this strategy would be to have United States dietary guidelines support a plant-based diet. 

July 2009:
Marissa Fernandez-Kiemele, MD
Full Article
article excerpt: The integrative staff, along with Dr. Fernandez Kiemele includes a Behavioral Health Counselor, Registered Dietitian, Fitness Trainer, Spiritual Director and Lifestyle Coordinator. "It's not uncommon," explains Dr. Fernandez Kiemele, "for people to first and foremost need to see the Spiritual Director more than the doctor.

August 2009:
Advisor Spotlight: Walter Willett, MD, DrPH
Full Article
article excerpt: "A large part of the population, probably the majority, are eating less well and becoming increasingly overweight and unhealthy; the chasm is getting wider. The challenge: to create an environment and culture where active living and healthy eating are the norm."

September 2009:
Matthew Lederman, MD and Alona Pulde, MD, L.Ac.
Full Article
article excerpt: Exsalus speaks to offering people the opportunity to excel at reaching their complete health: mind, body and spirit. They offer comprehensive health care:nutrition education, therapeutic lifestyle modifications including diet, fitness, as well as emotional and mental well-being, in a warm, tranquil and healing environment.

October 2009:
Neil Hirschenbein, MD, PhD, CCN, CNS and MaryAnn Hirschenbein, RN, CCN
Full Article
article excerpt:Patients come for a wide variety of reasons but the majority are pre-selected because 1) they believe in lifestyle medicine, and 2) are extremely educated. They are ready and willing to have us 'partner with them' for their health rather than the traditional model of expecting the doctor to 'do it' for them. 

November 2009:
Advisor Spotlight: Dean Ornish, MD 
Full Article
article excerpt: "If we want to make affordable health care available to the 47 million Americans who do not have health insurance, then we need to address the fundamental causes of health and illness, and provide incentives for healthy ways of living rather than reimbursing only drugs and surgery."

December 2009:
Leadership Spotlight: ACLM President, Wayne Dysinger, MD, MPH
Full Article
article excerpt: Dr. Dysinger knew during residency training that he wanted to do something 'big picture;"... "I wanted to be effective in the 'process' of medicine, such as the ways that medicine is perceived and taught and administered, so I created my own track of Family Medicine and Preventive Medicine. I didn't call it 'Lifestyle Medicine' at the time, but that is what I was searching for and creating all along."

2010

January 2010:
Irene Willingham, MD, RD
Full Article 
article excerpt:  "Our Team includes physicians, physical therapists, exercise physiologists, registered dietitians, yoga and Pilates teachers, certified fitness trainers and wellness coaches. Our services are available to both members and non-members and may be combined to suit individual needs."

February 2010:
Thomas L. Lenz, PharmD, MA, PAPHS
Full Article 
article excerpt: "Ideally the pharmacist is there to help care for the disease. I tell my students that the people they will be talking with can benefit, in one way or another, from lifestyle changes. As each provider, including the pharmacist, talks to the patient about lifestyle, the more likely the patient will implement the healthy behavior."

April 2010:
Judy Hochstadt, MD
Full Article 
article excerpt: ... founded Healthy Eating Lifestyle Program (HELP) ...To address the growing need to reverse unhealthy eating and exercise habits in children, Hochstadt began taking HELP outside of her suburban practice to schools, hospitals, rehabilitation centers, even local YMCAs. 

"We teach parents there are many ways to reward a child," she said.

May 2010:
Advisor Spotlight: Steven Blair, P.E.D., FACSM
Full Article 
article excerpt: "All primary care physicians and other health practitioners should view exercise as important as other established risk factors like smoking, high blood pressure, abnormal lipid profile, or elevated glucose. Exercising affects conditions such as overall health; morbidity from CVD, breast and colon cancer, diabetes, senility; and functional status."

June 2010:
Teresa Sherard, MD
Full Article 
article excerpt: To promote dietary changes in people with weight problems, Sherard and her fellow coworkers, Stuart Seale, M.D., and Diana Fleming, Ph.D./LDN, recently coauthored a book, “The Full Plate Diet.” The three authors spend a large part of their time promoting the book around the country.

July 2010:
Roger Greenlaw, MD, FACP, FACG, ABHM
Full Article 
article excerpt: “Initially, I found one person a week who was interested in making lifestyle changes to address their medical problems ...by the end of the year, more than half my patients every day were responding to the idea of self care.  I realized the increase was not due to more interested patients, rather it was due to my development of better listening and coaching skills.”

August 2010:
Edward Phillips, MD
Full Article 
article excerpt: Dr. Phillip’s interest in exercise physiology and mental health propelled him to found the Institute of Lifestyle Medicine (ILM) at Harvard in 2007. ILM’s mission is to reduce the prevalence of lifestyle-related disease and mortality in society through physician-directed interventions with patients.

October 2010:
Mladen Golubic, MD, PhD
Full Article 
article excerpt: Cleveland Clinic's Lifestyle 180 consists of a year-long program of 18 classes...composed of the three primary elements of Lifestyle Medicine: exercise or physical activity, nutrition and cooking, and stress management...participants have achieved consistently good results.

November 2010:
Liana Lianov, MD, MPH
Full Article 
article excerpt: “Lifestyle Medicine should increase throughout all of healthcare, including primary care and specialists. But the typical physician will not be able to provide all services and there will be a need for those providers who can do more intensive or specialized work in lifestyle medicine.”

December 2010:
Timothy Arnott, MD, ABFM
Full Article 
article excerpt: Dr. Arnott describes his private practice in Paradise, California as a standard primary care practice with a focus to inform and motivate patients to make “needed lifestyle changes that will reduce their dependence on the medical profession and pharmaceutical industry.”