Lifestyle Medicine - Part 1

In the first of two episodes on Lifestyle Medicine, we interview Dr. Elisabeth Fontaine and Dr. Scott Durgin. They provide background on the Lifestyle Medicine framework, which will set us up to talk to more members of the Lifestyle Medicine team at Springfield Medical Care Systems about how they're implementing support of a plant-based, whole food centered diet with their patients. That's Part 2 and it will be great, so be prepared by listening to this one first.

Links mentioned in this episode include:

• American College of Lifestyle Medicine - Which includes the diagram of the six areas of focus.
• While you can find resources at the general link above, Dr. Fontaine also recommends The Plantrician Project,  Lifestyle Medicine Economic Research Consortium, Nutritional Update for Physicians: Plant-Based Diets, The Power of Plants.
• We also referenced Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food. 
• The two websites for Dr. Fontaine's current work: Let's Lead and Plant Based Telehealth.
• If you want the details on those primary care spending percentages cited in the show, rest assured we had a work group on that. Here is the report (Feb, 2020). 

Ready for Part 2 of this episode? It's posted here.