Podcast Episode
Starting Early: Building Healthier Futures for Children and Families
About this episode
Welcome to another episode of Flip Your Script, a vodcast by the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, hosted by ACLM President Dr. Padmaja Patel. In each episode, we explore five key takeaways on how lifestyle medicine is helping clinicians and leaders reimagine the future of healthcare.
This episode, “Starting Early: Building Healthier Futures for Children and Families,” features the leaders of the Child and Adolescent Member Interest Group. Dr. Erin Brackbill, Dr. Blakely Amanti, and Dr. Michelle Loy share their perspectives on the role of lifestyle medicine in supporting the health and well-being of children, adolescents, and their families.
The conversation explores why caring for children often means caring for the whole family—and how family routines, relationships, environments, and social connections can shape health across generations. The guests discuss the importance of approaching lifestyle medicine through a family-centered lens and using the six pillars of lifestyle medicine to support children and families in practical, meaningful ways.
If you're interested in lifestyle medicine, child and adolescent health, family-centered care, childhood obesity, chronic disease prevention, health equity, social drivers of health, motivational interviewing, behavior change, family health, preventive medicine, or building healthier communities, this is an episode you won't want to miss.
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The American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) is the medical professional society for physicians and other professionals dedicated to clinical and worksite practice of lifestyle medicine as the foundation of a transformed and sustainable healthcare system. Lifestyle medicine is a medical specialty that uses therapeutic lifestyle interventions as a primary modality to treat chronic conditions including, but not limited to, cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes, and obesity.
Lifestyle medicine-certified clinicians are trained to apply evidence-based, whole-person, prescriptive lifestyle change to treat and, when used intensively, often reverse such conditions. Applying the six pillars of lifestyle medicine—a whole-food, plant-predominant eating pattern, physical activity, restorative sleep, stress management, avoidance of risky substances, and positive social connections—also provides effective prevention for these conditions.
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