Lifestyle Medicine
About the Book Series
Led by James M. Rippe, MD, founder of the Rippe Lifestyle Institute, this series is directed to a broad range of researchers and professionals consisting of topical books with clinical applications in nutrition and health, physical activity, obesity management, and applicable subjects in lifestyle medicine.
Geriatrics, Lifestyle Medicine and Healthy Aging: A Practical Guide
1st Edition
Edited
By Susan M. Friedman
September 30, 2025
Geriatrics, Lifestyle Medicine and Healthy Aging: A Practical Guide is a book for those interested in promoting healthy aging through lifestyle approaches. The book is divided into three sections covering various aspects of lifestyle medicine for older individuals including general concepts of ...
Lifestyle Medicine and the Primary Care Provider: A Practical Guide to Enabling Whole Person Care
1st Edition
Edited
By Ron Stout, Daniel Reichert, Rebecca Kelly
July 30, 2025
Lifestyle Medicine and the Primary Care Provider: A Practical Guide to Enabling Whole Person Care is a comprehensive and practical guide for primary care clinicians seeking to incorporate lifestyle medicine (LM) principles into their practice. Edited by Ron Stout, MD, MPH, FAAFP, FACLM; Dan ...
Lifestyle Nutrition: Eating for Good Health by Lowering the Risk of Chronic Diseases
1st Edition
By James M. Rippe
December 30, 2024
What individuals consume in their diet has profound implications on their health. Despite overwhelming evidence that plant-based diets yield multiple health benefits, physicians often feel ill-prepared to discuss nutrition with their patients. Authored by renowned cardiologist Dr. James M. Rippe, ...
Lifestyle Psychiatry: Through the Lens of Behavioral Medicine
1st Edition
Edited
By Gia Merlo, Christopher P. Fagundes
December 27, 2023
Lifestyle medicine is a practice which adopts evidence-based lifestyle interventions as a primary modality to prevent, treat, and reverse chronic diseases. The six main pillars of this specialty include physical activity, nutrition, stress resilience, cessation or risk reduction of substance use, ...
Empowering Behavior Change in Patients: Practical Strategies for the Healthcare Professional
1st Edition
Edited
By Beth Frates, Mark D. Faries
August 15, 2023
Empowering Behavior Change in Patients: Practical Strategies for the Healthcare Professional reviews medical research and pairs it with behavior change theories to create counseling strategies and tools that equip the reader to empower others to adopt and sustain change. With contributions by ...
Integrating Lifestyle Medicine for Prediabetes, Type 2 Diabetes, and Cardiometabolic Disease
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Via, Jeffrey Mechanick
May 12, 2023
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 ...
Integrating Lifestyle Medicine in Cardiovascular Health and Disease Prevention
1st Edition
By James M. Rippe
December 30, 2022
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States and around the world. Major risk factors for CVD result from poor lifestyle habits and practices, but the area of lifestyle medicine has emerged to help clinicians and their patients understand the ...
Lifestyle Nursing
1st Edition
Edited
By Gia Merlo, Kathy Berra
August 23, 2022
Lifestyle medicine is an evidence-based approach to helping individuals and families adopt and sustain healthy behaviors in preventing, treating, and oftentimes, reversing chronic diseases. This fast-growing specialty operates off six main principles including nutrition, physical activity, stress ...
Improving Women’s Health Across the Lifespan
1st Edition
Edited
By Michelle Tollefson, Nancy Eriksen, Neha Pathak
October 25, 2021
The book is an evidence-based source of information on women’s health issues for health professionals already practicing lifestyle medicine, as well as an entry level textbook for those new to the field of lifestyle medicine. The collective expertise of each of the editors along with content ...
Obesity Prevention and Treatment: A Practical Guide
1st Edition
Edited
By James M. Rippe, John P. Foreyt
September 24, 2021
The World Health Organization estimates that there are 2.1 billion individuals with obesity globally. Nearly three quarters of adults in the United States are overweight or obese. The average individual with obesity cuts ten years off their life expectancy, yet less than 40% of physicians routinely...
Manual of Lifestyle Medicine
1st Edition
By James M. Rippe
May 07, 2021
The fundamental premise of lifestyle medicine is that daily habits profoundly impact health and quality of life both in the short-term and long-term. Written by lifestyle medicine pioneer and cardiologist , Dr. James Rippe, this book provides a clinically oriented, evidence-based look into key ...
Increasing Physical Activity: A Practical Guide
1st Edition
By James M. Rippe
November 18, 2020
Only a fifth of adults in the United States do enough physical activity to meet the guidelines set by Centers for Disease Control. The health benefits of regular physical activity are beyond dispute, yet less than 40% of physicians routinely counsel their patients on the importance of physical ...