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  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Lifestyle medicine
  • Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2010 8:01:47 -0700

This is very interesting and encouraging.

---- Tradingpost <tradingpost@lobo.net> wrote:
>
> OK folks, this is about as official as it gets, when it makes JAMA. And it
> hit me that this ties in directly with our discussion of the grower
> lifestyle. The work and exercise, eating real food, and ending stress are
> all part of it. We might not make a lot of money but we may likely avoid
> catastrophic medical bills by treating or avoiding those illnesses with
> "lifestyle medicine". That (and health) could be an overwhelming reason to
> be a grower. I believe it and I do it.
>
> paul tradingpost@lobo.net
> ~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> "Lifestyle medicine is defined by the expert panel as the
> “evidence-based practice of assisting individuals and families to adopt and
> sustain healthy behaviors that can improve health and quality of life.” The
> panel undertook the competencies development initiative to begin to address
> an identified gap in physician practice. While the evidence clearly shows
> lifestyle interventions and behavior change to be the most effective
> first-line of therapy for reducing chronic disease, the majority of
> physicians are not following these guidelines, citing lack of knowledge,
> skill, or confidence in counseling patients about lifestyle interventions.
> "The American College of Preventive Medicine (ACPM), a leading
> organization of some of the country’s top physicians committed to
> preventing disease and promoting health, applauds today’s public release of
> a set of physician competencies for prescribing lifestyle medicine. The
> competencies, developed by a blue ribbon panel of physician experts and
> representatives from leading primary care and other medical associations,
> were released as part of a commentary by ACPM representatives Drs. Liana
> Lianov and Mark Johnson published in the July 14 issue of JAMA."
>
> http://www.acpm.org/LMCompetencies_pr.pdf
> ~~~~~~~~~
>
> "Nearly all the major medical societies recently joined in publishing a
> review of the scientific evidence for lifestyle medicine both for the
> prevention and TREATMENT of chronic disease. That report is called the ACPM
> Lifestyle Initiative, and I encourage you to read it. It concluded there is
> strong evidence that a lifestyle-based approach to chronic disease often
> works better than medication or surgery and saves money.
> "Taken collectively, the evidence is actually overwhelming. Lifestyle
> intervention is often more effective in reducing cardiovascular disease,
> hypertension, heart failure, stroke, cancer, diabetes and all cause
> mortality than almost any other medical intervention.(iii) This data in
> conjunction with a number of extraordinary recent research papers that call
> into question the very foundations of our current approach--treating risk
> factors such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, or high blood sugar
> to prevent heart disease and diabetes--forces us to rethink our whole
> approach to medicine. These studies showed that lowering blood pressure,
> blood sugar, and cholesterol in pre-diabetics with medication didn't reduce
> the risk of heart attacks or death and created unnecessary side
> effects.(iv),(v),(vi),(vii)
> "We're targeting the wrong things--we need to treat the cause, not the
> effects. High blood pressure, high cholesterol, and high blood sugar are
> NOT the cause of heart disease or diabetes. The real culprit is what we
> eat, how much we exercise, stress, and environmental toxins. Our lifestyle
> and environment influences the fundamental biological mechanisms that lead
> to disease: Changes in gene expression, which modulate inflammation,
> oxidative stress, and metabolic dysfunction. Treating risk factors is like
> blowing away the smoke while the fire rages on. Lifestyle medicine puts out
> the fire."
>
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-hyman/millions-die-due-to-withh_b_705114.html
>
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