Lifestyle medicine proponents include researchers and clinicians from the fields of medicine and public health. While they agree on the importance of questioning patients about their lifestyles and giving tailored advice on how to make improvements, there remains disagreement about who should provide such counseling and with what sort of training. Nor is there a widely accepted prescriptive approach for encouraging patient compliance.
We know lifestyle interventions can be very powerful, often more effective than drugs or surgery, said Dr. JoAnn Manson, a professor of epidemiology at Harvard s School of Public Health and a member of the editorial board of the new journal. But we need to provide the scientific evidence an how to incorporate that knowledge into practice.
Doctors may vaguely recommend that patients lose weight or get more sleep, for example, but they do not necessarily, know how to help them do it.
Moreover, many physicians themselves have unhealthy habits that may prevent them from offering advice.
Sleep-deprived doctor who scarf candy bars for lunch tend to feel inhibited in counseling others when they aren t exactly setting an example, said Dr. Walter Willett, chairman of the department of nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health and a member of the lifestyle medicine college s board of advisers.
Primary caregivers at least should have extensive training in lifestyle medicine, Dr. Willett said. And it s reasonable for there to be a medical specialty so patients can consult a trained practitioner who is certified as an expert in the field.
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