Hispanic Health Chronic disease statistics among Hispanics reinforces need to address health disparities ACLM’s Health Equity Achieved through Lifestyle Medicine (HEAL) initiative was created to address health disparities through lifestyle medicine. During Hispanic...
Curbing childhood obesity one family habit at a time For Qadira Ali Huff, MD, MPH, DipABLM, pediatrics is at the center of prevention, education, and advocacy. She has mastered unique skills coupled with those she acquired as a board-certified lifestyle medicine...
ACLM leaders bringing lifestyle medicine to family medicine A trio of leaders in lifestyle medicine have a key role in helping to integrate the fast-growing medical specialty into family medicine, a field that is critical to success in reversing the trajectory of...
Can culinary medicine be taught virtually to medical students? Carlo Sosa, MD, was always interested in cooking and the profound impact food choices have on health. So as a medical student in 2020 he eagerly enrolled in the new culinary medicine elective offered by...
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...
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.
