Communities besieged by chronic diseases need lifestyle medicine. Meet a doctor determined to deliver it there. Like many families with income and cultural challenges, Dr. Margarita Schneider-Munoz’s family history was of early breast cancer and heart attacks....
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.
