Lifestyle Medicine - 3rd Edition by Michael Sagner & Garry Egger & Andrew Binns & Stephan Rossner (Paperback)

About the Book

Introductions to the role of lifestyle factors in medicine / Garry Egger, Andrew Binns, Stephan Reossner 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 Reossner, 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 Reossner -- 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 Reossner and Andrew Binns -- Relationships, social inequity and distal factors in lifestyle medicine / Garry Egger, Andrew Binns, Stephan Reossner 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.--

Book Synopsis

Lifestyle Medicine: Lifestyle, the Environment and Preventive Medicine in Health and Disease, Third Edition, is an adjunct approach to health practice that seeks to deal with the more complex modern determinants of chronic diseases--primarily lifestyle and the environments driving such lifestyles--in contrast to the microbial 'causes' of infectious disease.

Our lifestyle choices have a profound effect on our health. As we live longer, one thing is clear: many of us will spend time living with injury and chronic illness due to our own choices. Changes in health patterns typically follow shifts in living conditions. Disease patterns have changed worldwide, from infectious to chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. This change has been so emphatic--nearly 70% of all presentations to a doctor in modern western societies are now chronic disease related--that medical services are being forced to change to accommodate this.

New chapters in this third edition explain the link between energy intake and expenditure; consider how modern technology are determinants of chronic disease; show how environmental influences, such as endocrine disruptors, influence our health; and summarize recent research on early childhood experiences and chronic disease.