Here are some free resources that you might find helpful if consulting isn’t what you need right now:

First, some evidence:

• Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP)

• Effectiveness of Lifestyle Intervention for Type 2 Diabetes in Primary Care: the REAL HEALTH-Diabetes Randomized Clinical Trial (Journal of General Internal Medicine 2020)

• Primary prevention of coronary heart disease in women through diet and lifestyle (New England Journal of Medicine 2000)

• Impact of Healthy Lifestyle Factors on Life Expectancies in the US Population (Circulation 2018)

• Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease with a Mediterranean Diet Supplemented with Extra-Virgin Olive Oil or Nuts (New England Journal of Medicine 2018)

• Vegetarian dietary patterns and mortality in Adventist Health Study 2 (JAMA Internal Medicine 2013)

• Effect of potentially modifiable risk factors associated with myocardial infarction in 52 countries (the INTERHEART study): case-control study (Lancet 2004)

Then, some guidelines:

• CDC Guidelines for Physical Activity

• Practical, Evidence-Based Approaches to Nutritional Modifications to Reduce Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease: An American Society For Preventive Cardiology Clinical Practice Statement (2022)

• 2021 Dietary Guidance to Improve Cardiovascular Health: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association

• 2017 ACC/AHA/AAPA/ABC/ACPM/AGS/APhA/ASH/ASPC/NMA/PCNA Guideline for the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Management of High Blood Pressure in Adults

Additional resources

Lifestyle Medicine

• American College of Lifestyle Medicine (and their complimentary resources including patient handouts)

• American Heart Association’s Life’s Essential 8

• Physician Competencies for Prescribing Lifestyle Medicine (2010)

• A Family Physician’s Introduction to Lifestyle Medicine (2022)

• ACLM’s Lifestyle Medicine Reimbursement Resources and Shared Medical Appointments Toolkit

• Institute of Lifestyle Medicine

• MGH Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine

• MGH McCance Center for Brain Health

• Full Plate Living

• American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine

• Achieving Whole Health: A New Approach for Veterans and the Nation

Shared Medical Appointments (Group Medical Visits)

• MGH Healthy Lifestyle Program

• MGH Group Visit Guide

• VA Group Visit Systematic Review

• Integrated Center for Group Medical Visits’s internal consent forms, sample patient notes, and billing resources

• American College of Physicians website on group medical visits

• American Academy of Family Physicians website on coding for group medical visits

• American Academy of Family Physicians: A Guide to Group Visits for Chronic Conditions Affected by Overweight and Obesity

• YouTube video on Implementing Shared Medical Appointments

Food Is Medicine & Culinary Medicine

• The Nutrition Source (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)

• Nutrition Micro-Courses (Tufts Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy)

• Food Is Medicine Massachusetts

• Healthy Kitchens Healthy Lives

• Clinicians CHEF Coaching

• NuCook

Health and Wellness Coaching

• Wellcoaches

• PAVING the Path to Wellness