Short description:

This book focuses on lifestyle interventions for people who have prediabetes, diabetes, and cardiometabolic disease. It begins broadly with epidemiology and public health concerns, moving to drivers of disease, levels of prevention, components of implementation, and ending with several special topics.

Long description:

Lifestyle change is universally recommended for patients with type 2 diabetes and cardiometabolic disease, yet, the majority of clinical practice, educational programs, and clinical trials within these chronic disease spaces focus on medication use and procedures, with insufficient emphasis on lifestyle medicine.  The concept of lifestyle medicine can serve as a countermeasure, acting through aspects of personal choice, natural and built environments, cultural traditions, and socioeconomic influences that affect the metabolic health of an individual.  Integrating Lifestyle Medicine for Prediabetes, Type 2 Diabetes, and Cardiometabolic Disease provides clinical evidence for and a mechanistic understanding of the six pillars of lifestyle medicine.  It guides the reader to identify opportunities for early intervention rather than focus on the diagnosis and treatment of the established disease. Interventions at earlier points have the potential to mitigate progression, prevent complications, reduce costs, and improve a patient?s overall health at all points in their lifetime. 

Key Features

• Provides mechanistic, epidemiological, and clinical understanding of all pillars of lifestyle medicine

• Presents information on mechanisms for lifestyle medicine in cardiometabolic disease

• Features a unique model that includes recognition of predisease and even pre-predisease with rationale for intervention

• Promotes evidence-based recommendations for all stages of cardiometabolic disease

This volume in the Lifestyle Medicine series is an essential resource for clinicians and students, providing them with information to help them to prevent complications, reduce costs, and improve a patient?s overall health at all points in their lifetime.

Table of Contents:

Chapters

1.     Epidemiology, Drivers, Public Health Challenges of Prediabetes, Diabetes and Cardiometabolic disease

2.     The Evolutionary Biology and Human History of Cardiometabolic Disease

3.     The role of cardiac energetics in Cardiometabolic-Based Chronic Disease

4.     Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals

5.     The Primordial Prevention of Cardiometabolic Risk Factors using Lifestyle Medicine - Implementing Early Childhood Health Promotion

6.     Primary Prevention of Type 2 diabetes and Cardiometabolic-Based Chronic Disease Using Lifestyle Medicine

7.     Secondary Prevention Example: Using Lifestyle Medicine in Patients with T2D

8.     Tertiary Prevention using Lifestyle Medicine for Cardiometabolic-Based Chronic Disease

9.     The Mediterranean Diet

10.   Vegan Diets for Diabetes Prevention and Management of Cardiometabolic Risk

11.   Physical Activity

12.   Psychological Stress, Behavioral Modification and Cardiometabolic Health

13.   Sleep Hygiene

14.   Transculturalizing Lifestyle Medicine for Managing Cardiometabolic-Based Chronic Disease (adjusted)

15.   Socioeconomics and Infrastructure

16.   Synthesis and Core Recommendations for the use of Lifestyle Medicine to Reduce Dysglycemia and Cardiometabolic Risk