Lifestyle Medicine, Fourth Edition (4^th Ed.)

The fourth edition of Dr. James Rippe?s classic Lifestyle Medicine textbook continues to lead and inform the rapidly growing field of lifestyle medicine. This is the discipline which focuses on the impact of daily habits and actions on both short and long-term health and quality of life.

The first edition of this comprehensive work named the field of lifestyle medicine in the academic medical literature. The fourth edition continues to span and expand the field and offers extensive evidence-based literature in virtually every aspect of lifestyle medicine. This Handbook, edited by cardiologist, Dr. James Rippe, who is a leading lifestyle medicine researcher, represents the combined wisdom and recommendations of over 325 experts in virtually every aspect of lifestyle medicine. Chapter authors have been chosen because of their background as leaders in various aspects of lifestyle medicine.

Lifestyle Medicine, Fourth Edition, contains extensive sections on the treatment and prevention of coronary heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes, obesity, substance abuse, dementia, and many other clinical conditions. Key lifestyle modalities such as physical activity, nutrition, weight management, sleep, stress reduction and positive connections with other humans are supported by detailed discussion and state of the art evidence. The expanded section on behavioral medicine provides an important framework for these discussions. Every chapter has been completely revised and many new topics added such as lifestyle medicine for nursing, psychiatry, and preventive neurology.

The fourth edition of this classic text continues to serve as the leading, comprehensive Handbook in lifestyle medicine. The original has been called the ?indispensable bible? of lifestyle medicine and the fourth edition of this Work continues to justify this designation.

There is no longer any serious doubt that daily habits and actions significantly impact on multiple aspects of health. The fourth edition of Lifestyle Medicine provides the scientific evidence to support this assertion and will serve as an invaluable reference and guide, not only to lifestyle medicine practitioners but to all primary care physicians, subspecialty physicians, nurses, and other healthcare practitioners.

There are over 100 chapters in this Handbook, the “Parts” are listed here:

Part I: Lifestyle Management and Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease

Part II: Nutritional Aspects of Lifestyle Medicine

Part III: Physical Activity

Part IV: Behavioral Medicine

Part V: Lifestyle Medicine Approaches to Dysglycemia

Part VI: Lifestyle Issues in the Prevention and Treatment of Cancer

Part VII: Obesity and Weight Management

Part VIII: Immunology and Infectious Disease

Part IX: Pulmonary Medicine

Part X: Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women’s Health

Part XI: Cardiovascular Rehabilitation and Secondary Prevention

Part XII: Lifestyle Components of Pediatric Medicine

Part XIII: Lifestyle Medicine and Nursing

Part XIV: Mental Health and Psychiatry in Lifestyle Medicine

Part XV: Preventive Neurology

Part XVI: The Practice of Lifestyle Medicine

Part: XVII: Substance Abuse and Addiction

Part XVIII: Lifestyle Medicine in Geriatrics

Part XIX: Health Promotion

Part XX: Exercise Psychology

Part XXI: Injury Prevention

Part XXII: Public and Environmental Supports for Lifestyle Medicine

Dr. Rippe is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School with post graduate training at Massachusetts General Hospital and the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He is currently the Founder and Director of the Rippe Lifestyle Institute and Professor of Medicine at the UMass Chan Medical School.

Over the past 30 years Dr. Rippe has established and run the largest research organization in the world exploring how daily habits and actions impact short and long-term health and quality of life. This organization, Rippe Lifestyle Institute (RLI), has published hundreds of papers that form the scientific basis for the fields of lifestyle medicine risk factor reduction and high performance health. Rippe Lifestyle Institute also conducts numerous studies every year on physical activity, nutrition and healthy weight management. Dr. Rippe has written over 500 academic papers and abstracts and written or edited 60 books including 37 for health care professionals and 2e for the general public.

A lifelong and avid athlete Dr. Rippe maintains his personal fitness with a regular walk, jog, swimming and weight training program. He holds a black belt in karate and is an avid wind surfer, skier and tennis player. He lives outside of Boston with his wife, television news anchor Stephanie Hart and their four children, Hart, Jaelin, Devon and Jamie.