Five things you can do to eat healthier on a tight budget Inflation is straining household budgets but there are many low-cost, nutritious and tasty food options that health clinicians can explore with patients as part of a lifestyle medicine treatment plan. Inflation...
There is a growing threat to our national security. It’s probably not what you think it is. The growing burden of non-communicable chronic disease in the military has been called a threat to U.S national security. The Air Force is incorporating lifestyle medicine into...
Lifestyle medicine helped save this physician from burnout. “It reminds that I didn’t become a doctor simply to prescribe medicine or procedures but to help and heal people,” says Dr. Raquel F. Harrison. Dr. Raquel F. Harrison is an emergency medicine physician for...
How a commitment to lifestyle changes helped one woman face cancer Terri Schon felt like the only one without a role in her breast cancer treatments. Until she discovered lifestyle medicine and shared medical appointments. Terri Schon’s cancer diagnosis in 2019 left...
How a Mayo Clinic doctor who survived stage 4 cancer and a heart transplant inspires patients. Dr. Dawn Mussallem, a board-certified lifestyle medicine physician, says her commitment to healthy lifestyle behaviors gave her a sense of empowerment while undergoing...
Lifestyle medicine works. So why can’t physicians get paid to practice it? What is missing is a model that allows clinicians to integrate lifestyle medicine into their practice, incentivize the most optimal health outcomes and make it financially sustainable. But...
Membership Matters
As the nation’s only medical professional association representing the interdisciplinary field of lifestyle medicine, the American College of Lifestyle Medicine represents a galvanized force for change; members are united in their dedication to identify and eradicate the root causes of chronic disease, with the clinical outcome goal of health restoration. ACLM closes the gap in evidence-based education in lifestyle medicine across the spectrum of pre- and post-professional training. Along with training and support of its members in their individual practices, ACLM advocates lifestyle medicine as the first and optimal whole-person treatment option for all people, mitigating much of the non-communicable, chronic disease epidemic.
