Lifestyle medicine : lifestyle, the environment, and preventive medicine in health and disease [E-Book]

Includes index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (ScienceDirect, viewed March 31, 2017).

Introductions to the role of lifestyle factors in medicine / Garry Egger, Andrew Binns, Stephan R�ossner and Michael Sagner -- The epidemiology of chronic disease / Maximillian de Courten, Barbora de Courten, Garry Egger and Michael Sagner -- A "germ theory" approach for lifestyle medicine / Garry Egger -- structure for lifestyle medicine / Garry Egger, Michael Sagner, Hamish Meldrum, David Katz and Rob Lawson -- Everything you wanted to know about motivation (but weren't intrinsically motivated enough to ask) / John Litt, Rosanne Coutts and Garry Egger -- Self-management in lifestyle medicine / Malcolm Battersby, Garry Egger and John Litt -- Overweight and obesity / Stephan R�ossner, Garry Egger, Andrew Binns and Michael Sagner -- Nutrition for the nondietician / Joanna McMillan Price and Garry Egger -- Fluids, fitness and fatness / Garry Egger and Suzanne Pearson -- Behavioral aspects of nutrition / Neil King and Garry Egger -- Physical activity / Mike Climstein and Garry Egger -- Physical activity / Mike Climstein and Garry Egger -- Stress / Gary Egger and Robert Reznick -- Dealing with worry and anxiety / Andrew Binns, Garry Egger and Robert Reznick -- Depression / Robert Reznick, Andrew Binns and Garry Egger -- Happiness and mental health / Julia Anwar-McHenry, Rob Donovan and Garry Egger -- Technology-induced pathology / John Stevens and Garry Egger -- To sleep, perchance to ... get everything else right / Caroline West and Garry Egger -- Health and the environment / Garry Egger, Andrew Binns and Stephan R�ossner -- Meaningless, alienation and loss of culture/identity (MAL) as determinants of chronic disease / John Stevens, Andrew Binns, Bob Morgan and Garry Egger -- Preventing and managing injury at the clinical level / Kevin Wolfenden and Garry Egger - Rethinking chronic pain in a lifestyle medicine context / Chris Hayes, Caroline West and Garry Egger -- Understanding addictions / John Litt and Caroline West -- Medicines / Julian Henwood, Stephan R�ossner and Andrew Binns -- Relationships, social inequity and distal factors in lifestyle medicine / Garry Egger, Andrew Binns, Stephan R�ossner and Maximillian De Couten -- Sex and lifestyle / Michael Gillman and Garry Egger -- Lifestyle and oral health / Bernadette Drummond and Garry Egger -- Lifestyle and environmental influences on skin / Hugh Molloy and Garry Egger -- Lifestyle-related aspects of gastrointestinal health / Ross Hansen -- The next chapter / Michael Sagner, Amy McNeil and Ross Arena.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction to Lifestyle Medicine. (Existing) Outlines the ‘what’ and ‘why’ of LM 2. The Epidemiology of Chronic Disease: (Revised) Explains the scientific background and rational for LM 3. Metaflammation: The Underlying Basis of Chronic Disease (Revised). Explains the physiological constant in Chronic Disease 3. An Operational Structure for Practicing Lifestyle Medicine: (New). Provides a structural basis for carrying out LM 4. Everything you Wanted to Know About Motivation (Existing). Understanding how to motivate patients/clients to conform 6. Self-Management in Lifestyle Medicine (Existing). Provides a model for involving patients/clients to own their own care 7. Overweight and Obesity; The Chronic Disease Epidemic’s Underbelly (Revised) 8. The Metabolic Syndrome and Diabetes (Revised). Explains the link between chronic diseases, with type 2 diabetes as an example 9. Physical Activity: Generic Prescription for Health (Revised).

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