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Q&A; July/August/September Issue 2023; “Lifestyle Medicine: How to Promote Healthy Change in Older Adults.”
Read and learn about tackling behavioral changes.

Living the Good Life: Lifestyle Changes for a Healthier You
Yvette Cabrera, Librarian, International Languages Department
“Dr. Phillips believes that lifestyle medicine awareness and education is important for the future of better healthcare and that having public institutions, like the Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL), provide this type of health education to the community is imperative to addressing the epidemic of preventable chronic diseases.” June 2023. Read LALP Blog.

Applications of Lifestyle Medicine within the Military and the VA. ACLM Health Systems Symposium. May 14, 2021. The nations largest, integrated health system, the Veterans Health Administration (VA) is altering its approach toward Whole Health; a proactive, personalized, patient-driven system of care. View this session and the VAs cultural transformation to embrace lifestyle medicine as mainstream clinical practice.

‘Code Blue’ documentary hits home for Colorado Springs ER doctor. March 2019. Larry Cohen, an emergency room doctor at UCHealth Memorial Hospital and the first doctor in Colorado Springs to be board certified in lifestyle medicine, says the ‘code blue’ film supports his beliefs about making lifestyle changes for better health. Read the article.

Planet-friendly, Plant-Based Home Cooking. Harvard Health Blog. Julie Corliss, Executive Editor, Harvard Heart Letter. February 2019.  “Instead of trying to cook an entire vegetarian meal from scratch, start with one small step and build from there, says Dr. Rani Polak, founding director of the Culinary Healthcare Education Fundamentals (CHEF) coaching program at Harvard’s Institute of Lifestyle Medicine.”

Culinary Medicine: A Recipe for Better Health. U.S. News & World Report. November 2018. “Dr. Rani Polak, a physician, chef and research associate at Harvard Medical School, says no one knows precisely who was the first doctor to translate mom’s dinner table advice into a prescription for patients.”

Public Health Nurses Promoting Healthy Lifestyles. Mother and Child Health Clinics have provided preventive health services in Israel for nearly a century. The Public Health Nurses Promote Healthy Lifestyles Program was developed to assist families in adopting healthy behaviors. “Practice What You Teach” Public Health Nurses Promoting Healthy Lifestyles (PHeeL-PHiNe): Program Evaluation.”  J Ambulatory Care Management. July/September 2018.