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What is Lifestyle Medicine?

Explore the Core Competencies

Addressing the root causes of disease with evidence-based therapies in lifestyle behaviors such as diet, exercise, sleep, social connectivity and stress.

Certification

Board Exam

Differentiate yourself with evidence - based practice of Lifestyle interventions and set the global benchmark. Certification is open to physicians, nurses, and other allied health professionals. Testing for 2020 will take place in November.

Program Certification

Health Promotion

ACLM now offers formal review of health promotion and wellness programs seeking the designation of Certified Lifestyle Medicine Program.

LM for Coaches

In partnership with WellCoaches

This 18-hour online course provides an in-depth overview of the leading lifestyle medicine topics while supporting coaches in their individual practices or as part of a multidisciplinary team.

Access to COVID-19 Resources

COVID-19

Food and Nutrition

Food’s effect on metabolism and immunity: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/20/well/eat/coronavirus-diet-metabolic-health.html
An opinion piece on food as medicine: https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/493127-healthy-food-the-unexpected-medicine-for-covid-19-and-national-security
America's junk food diet makes us even more vulnerable to coronavirus: https://bit.ly/3aAPRC7

Pre-Existing Conditions

From MedPage, an article on the baseline health of our country going into this pandemic: https://bit.ly/3bwxBex
On obesity as a risk factor: https://www.newsweek.com/obesity-covid-19-risk-coronavirus-hospitalization-1497791
Former ACLM President David Katz, MD, MPH, interviewed on Real Time by Bill Maher last week, gives a shout-out to ACLM and Lifestyle Medicine, emphasizing the need to rein in lifestyle-related chronic conditions and thereby decrease the percentage of the population classified as “most vulnerable” to infectious diseases: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lze-rMYLf2E If you don’t have time to watch it, here is a good summary: https://www.straight.com/covid-19-pandemic/dr-david-katz-explains-health-risks-of-lengthy-lockdowns-and-why-covid-19-turns-chronic
Research on NYC patients: Presenting Characteristics, Comorbidities, and Outcomes Among 5700 Patients Hospitalized With COVID-19 in the New York City Area
Analysis of global data and chronic disease: https://medium.com/@DrDavidKatz/what-we-are-learning-from-global-data-on-covid-19-so-far-4c94d0c72b54

Health Disparities

Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (MD) sent the following letter urging the leaders of all 50 states, plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and U.S. territories to collect demographic data on racial disparities and the coronavirus.
Impact on physicians of color: https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/health-equity/how-covid-19-affecting-physicians-color-across-country?utm_source=fbpage&utm_medium=social_a
How the virus is affecting one of the nation’s wealthiest black counties: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/covid-19-is-ravaging-one-of-the-countrys-wealthiest-black-counties/ar-BB13eFg7?ocid=spartanntp

Impact on Care Delivery

Impact of the virus on care delivery: https://www.healthevolution.com/insider/covid-19-response-signals-an-immediate-shift-in-the-future-of-care-delivery-if-it-lasts/#consumerism
Surgeon General Jerome Adams announced a new telehealth website (https://telehealth.hhs.gov/) as a resource for providers and patients.

NUTRITION

The report from the recent 50th Anniversary of the White House Conference on Food, Nutrition, and Health held mentions of nutrition education, policy changes, disparities and sustainability: https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000171-0e13-d270-a773-6f5ff7ea0000 One of the priority recommendations was “Equip health professionals with effective nutrition interventions and better nutrition knowledge. With diet-related disease being the number one cause of poor health in America, nutrition should be among the top priorities in our health care system. Health providers need better nutrition training and effective, evidence-based nutrition interventions, tailored to specific populations, that can improve diet-related health outcomes and reduce healthcare costs.”

ITLC COMPETENCIES

ACLM’s Expert Lifestyle Medicine Panel (ELMP) proposes a set of competencies for providers who specialize in the practice of lifestyle medicine (LM), focused on intensive therapeutic lifestyle change: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1559827619856542

ACLM addresses the need for quality, evidence-based education and certification in Lifestyle Medicine.
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