News and Press

  • THE CARLAT REPORT; GERIATRIC PSYCHIATRY

Q&A; July/August/September Issue 2023; “Lifestyle Medicine: How to Promote Healthy Change in Older Adults.”

Read and learn about tackling behavioral changes.

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  • 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.

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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.

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‘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.
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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.”
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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.”

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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.

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The American Board of Lifestyle Medicine announces that 204 physicians and 43 PhD/Masters-level health clinicians have become the first medical professionals globally to be certified as Diplomates of the ABLM/ACLM and the International Board of Lifestyle Medicine. November 17, 2017. Congratulations to everyone!
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Program Profile Lifestyle as Medicine: Institute of Lifestyle Medicine (ILM), Harvard Medical School. The Institute of Lifestyle Medicine (ILM) plays a critical role in today’s complex medical landscape; Alternative and Complementary Therapies April 2017.

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This is How Much Exercise You Really Need to Do to See Health Benefits. Women’s Health. September 2016. Edward Phillips, M.D., founder and director of the Institute of Lifestyle Medicine at Harvard Medical School and co-host of WBUR’s Magic Pill podcast discusses exercise, the benefits, and how much is necessary.

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Organize Your Emotions. Optimize Your Life.  September 2016.  “In ORGANIZE YOUR EMOTIONS, OPTIMIZE YOUR LIFE, the authors, Margaret Moore, Edward Phillips, and John Hanc explain how nine different parts of your psyche work together. These emotions, or inner “family members,” can either be well-balanced and work smoothly together, or they can be unbalanced, leading to lots of stress and unhappiness.”
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Can America’s Doctors Lead Us to Better Health? Medical Economics, April 2016. “It’s no longer enough to treat disease and keep symptoms at bay. Our doctors need to lead us to better health,” writes Dr. Edward Phillips and Helen Durkin.

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Culinary Medicine Programs.  Health-related Culinary Education: A Summary of Representative Emerging Programs for Health Professionals and Patients.

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A Parallel Curriculum In Lifestyle Medicine. The Clinical Teacher, December 2015. There is a lack of structured training in medical schools surrounding the components of lifestyle medicine. Since 2009 Harvard Medical School has addressed the absence in the curriculum by developing a student-led, faculty member-advised, parallel curriculum in lifestyle medicine.

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Doctor’s Orders: Prescribe Exercise to Patients, Make Physical Activity a Vital Sign. CommonHealth, December 2015. Dr. Phillips, Director of the Institute of Lifestyle Medicine, provides his thoughts in this timely and important article. “Clinician’s exercise prescription is an easily learned, readily applied and highly potent intervention….”
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U.S. News & World Reports. How to Exercise When You are Diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes. Edward Phillips, MD, ILM director, talks about the importance of a sustainable exercise plan.

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Is There A Lesson About Treadmills in Sandberg Spouse Death? Yes: Keep Exercising. Edward Phillips, MD, ILM director, discusses this tragic accident. wbur’s CommonHealth

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Engineering Physical Activity into Your DayRadioMD guest Dr. Edward Phillips.

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Doctors Dole Out Prescription for Exercise

WSJ


Dare to be 100: Lifestyle’s Time 


Exercise is Medicine: An Rx for a Better America


Wellness: Does Your Doc Know What To Look For?


Exercise Should be Prescribed Like Other Medicine, Doctors Say


Your health is affected more by what you eat, drink and do than by any other factor, including genetics 


Dr. Phillips interviewed by Good Morning America’s Dr. Tim Johnson in segment called Do You Need a Health Coach?