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ACLM is the nation’s medical professional society advancing lifestyle medicine as the foundation for a redesigned, high-value and equitable healthcare delivery system, leading to whole-person health. ACLM educates, equips, empowers and supports its members through quality, evidence-based education, certification, research and practice support to identify and eradicate the root cause of chronic disease, with a clinical outcome goal of health restoration as opposed to disease management.

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The Uncomfortable Truth MAHA Is Exposing About U.S. Healthcare

Forbes: Dr. Sachin Jain writes about the contradiction in health care when it comes to prevention lifestyle interventions and payment.

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‘A historic moment’: Medical societies unite at Lifestyle Medicine Conference

Healio: Leaders of several medical organizations came together at the American College of Lifestyle of Medicine’s annual conference to highlight the importance of integrating lifestyle medicine across all of health care..

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How lifestyle interventions reverse type 2 diabetes

KevinMD: Dr. Mahima Gulati shares a patient story in this column on why it is time to change the clinical goal of type 2 diabetes treatment from managing disease to actively pursuing remission whenever possible.

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Your Doctor Might Be Able to Take You Off Diabetes Meds

Epoch Times: An ACLM study suggests that reducing or stopping diabetes medications in some patients with Type 2 diabetes can be both safe and achievable.

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Dr. John Findley, a lifestyle medicine innovator and physician executive with more than 20 years of experience advancing value-based and whole-person care, will lead ACLM into its next phase of growth and impact.

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The American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) today announced that Susan Benigas will transition from her role as chief executive officer to CEO emeritus and senior advisor after more than 12 years of transformative leadership for the medical professional society.

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The American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) has announced the opening of registration and a partial list of keynotes for its accredited, hybrid 2026 Lifestyle Medicine Annual Conference, set for November 8 to 11. The event, which this year will feature a record number of concurrent sessions, will showcase the latest research, education, and clinical practice integration of lifestyle medicine, including food as medicine, as the standard of care for a transformed and sustainable system of healthcare delivery to address the nation’s epidemic of chronic disease.

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As the use of obesity medications, such as GLP-1 receptor agonists, continues to expand, the American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) has released a new Obesity Medications & Lifestyle Medicine Toolkit to help clinicians deliver safer, more effective, and more sustainable obesity care.

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A new research study from the American College of Lifestyle Medicine provides real-world evidence that deprescribing glucose‑lowering medications is both feasible and safe when patients with type 2 diabetes receive lifestyle‑informed care in primary care settings.

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The American College of Lifestyle Medicine and Content With Purpose launch Project Remission: A Lifestyle Medicine Approach to Type 2 Diabetes, a video series featuring short documentaries, expert interviews, and patient stories highlighting the potential of lifestyle medicine to reshape diabetes care.

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The new position statement is the latest in a broad set of practice tools that ACLM has developed to help clinicians provide evidence-based dietary counseling and prescriptions to patients for the treatment, reversal and prevention of chronic disease.

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Advocacy & Policy

A lifestyle medicine payment breakthrough in 2026

Lifestyle medicine is moving from the margins of the payment system into the mainstream architecture of federal healthcare transformation.

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Membership

How Member Interest Groups support, connect, and empower members 

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Chronic Disease

What new research says about deprescribing T2D medications after lifestyle change

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Lifestyle Medicine Overview

How “all-or-nothing” thinking deters physical activity-and what clinicians can do about it

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