Tools and Resources

General Resources

  • Walk with a Doc: Inspiring Communities through Movement and Conversation. “With an aim to make health and happiness accessible to everyone, Walk with a Doc offers free walking programs in communities around the world led by local doctors, healthcare providers, or medical students. These ongoing events allow participants to safely walk, learn about current health topics, and meet new people.” Learn more about starting a Walk With a Doc program in your community.

  • PRESCRIBE THE MAGIC PILL! The Magic Pill focuses on the fun and pleasure of physical activity, and offers listeners a “daily dose of get-up-and-go” in under 10 minutes. The full series exists online, but it’s designed to be delivered as a daily email for 21 days, to add a gentle in-box push every day. Co-hosts Dr. Eddie Phillips of Harvard Medical School and Carey Goldberg of WBUR’s CommonHealth provide the physical activity challenge that can be used by anyone and is an especially helpful tool for healthcare professionals when working with patients and clients. The Magic Pill Exercise Podcast received the Edward R. Murrow Excellence in Innovation Broadcasting Award!  LEARN MORE
  • Institute of Lifestyle Medicine CHEF Coaching Program. Click here to learn more and register.
  • His Holiness the Dalai Lama Engages with Students & Faculty of Harvard Medical School 
    Topic:  “Lifestyle Medicine: Tools for Promoting Healthy Change” May 10, 2021The Institute of Lifestyle Medicine (ILM) invites you to watch His Holiness the Dalai Lama engage with students & faculty of Harvard Medical School on the topic “Lifestyle Medicine: Tools for Promoting Healthy Change” online from his residence in Dharamsala, HP, India. The event was organized by ILM, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, & Harvard Medical School. The video was recorded on May 10,  and first broadcast as a class at Harvard. Enjoy.
  • The True Health Initiative is a coalition of world-renowned health experts committed to cutting through the noise and educating on only the time-honored, proven principles about lifestyle as medicine. Learn more.
  • The Lifestyle Medicine Global Alliance represents the convergence of lifestyle medicine professional associations from around the world, uniting under one banner for the purpose of collaboration, shared knowledge and best practices, and to more compellingly convey the power of the lifestyle medicine story—a story of health, hope and healing for one and all. Lifestyle medicine leaders of all nations are working together to decrease the global pandemic of non-communicable disease. Learn more.
  • The American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine (AJLM) is a peer-reviewed bi-monthly resource for practitioners seeking to incorporate lifestyle practices into clinical medicine. AJLM provides commentaries and research reviews on nutrition and diet, cardiovascular disease, obesity, anxiety and depression, sleep problems, metabolic disease, and more. Click here to learn more.
  • The Medical Fitness Association (MFA) is a non-profit professional membership association and is the only organization dedicated to the medical fitness difference and integrated care as the prescription for better health. MFA serves facilities and professionals who are committed to promoting the benefits of health and fitness programs on lifestyle-related disease and making medical fitness programs and services available within their community. Learn more.


Culinary Tips and Tools

Stress Management and Relaxation Tools (courtesy of the Benson-Henry
Institute for Mind Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital)

Coaching Tools

Nutrition and Weight Management Tools

Physical Activity Tools