Convincing Doctors to Embrace Lifestyle Medicine
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2014-01-29

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DESCRIPTION: An editorial by the Director of Yale's Prevention Research Center on putting a face on the tragedy of millions suffering and dying from chronic diseases that could be prevented, treated, and reversed if doctors inspired lifestyle changes in their patients.

What did Ornish publish 23 years ago? See Our Number One Killer Can Be Stopped (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/our-number-one-killer-can-be-stopped/).

I think I've only profiled one other editorial (Ornish's Convergence of Evidence, http://nutritionfacts.org/video/convergence-of-evidence/), but this one really struck me (so much so I used it to close out my latest live presentation More Than an Apple a Day: Combating Common Diseases, http://nutritionfacts.org/video/more-than-an-apple-a-day-preventing-our-most-common-diseases/). 

Why don't more doctors practice lifestyle medicine? Two theories are offered in The Tomato Effect (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-tomato-effect) and Lifestyle Medicine: Treating the Causes of Disease (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/lifestyle-medicine-treating-the-causes-of-disease).
 
For more on the power of our day-to-day choices, see:

• Cavities and Coronaries: Our Choice (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/cavities-and-coronaries-our-choice)
• Dr. Burkitt's F-Word Diet (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/dr-burkitts-f-word-diet)
• One in a Thousand: Ending the Heart Disease Epidemic (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/one-in-a-thousand-ending-the-heart-disease-epidemic)

Have a question about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/convincing-doctors-to-embrace-lifestyle-medicine/ 

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