Ifeoma Monye - Lifestyle Medicine

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Library of Congress Cataloging‐in‐Publication Data Names: Monye, Ifeoma, author. | Ifezulike, Adaeze, author. | Adamson, Karen, author. | Birrell, Fraser, author. Title: Lifestyle medicine : essential MCQs for certification in lifestyle medicine / Ifeoma Monye, Adaeze Ifezulike, Karen Adamson, Fraser Birrell. Description: First edition. | Hoboken, NJ : Wiley‐Blackwell, 2022. | Includes index. Identifiers: LCCN 2021027293 (print) | LCCN 2021027294 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119795919 (paperback) | ISBN 9781119795926 (adobe pdf) | ISBN 9781119795964 (epub) Subjects: MESH: Preventive Medicine–methods | Life Style | Healthy Lifestyle | Risk Reduction Behavior | Health Promotion–methods Classification: LCC RA427.8 (print) | LCC RA427.8 (ebook) | NLM WA 108| DDC 362.1–dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021027293LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021027294

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When Dr Ifeoma Monye and Dr Adaeze Ifezulike were preparing for the first‐ever Board Certification examination in Lifestyle Medicine, in the United Kingdom, they faced a daunting task of finding suitable revision materials. As pioneers for that examination in August 2018, all candidates had the same challenge! Where to find a multiple‐choice revision book to test your knowledge of Lifestyle Medicine and aid revision?

Therefore, at the end of the examination, they decided to create a resource that future candidates for this examination and indeed other Lifestyle Medicine examinations will use to make revision easier. In the course of securing a publisher and putting together the best possible book, they invited Dr Karen Adamson, Founding Director of the British Society of Lifestyle Medicine and Dr Fraser Birrell, Founding Editor‐in‐Chief of the Wiley open access journal Lifestyle Medicine to co‐author.

We all want to thank the Chairman of the British Society of Lifestyle Medicine and now President of the World Lifestyle Medicine Council, Dr Rob Lawson for reviewing the book, providing feedback, and his support of the MCQ Book.

We are all also grateful to Dr Lilach Maleskey, President of the Israeli Association of Lifestyle Medicine for reviewing the book and making very useful suggestions which has helped enrich the final product.

We appreciate the support from Stephan Herzog, the Executive Director of the International Board of Lifestyle Medicine and the useful suggestions he provided.

Finally, we are all indebted to our families who had to put up with the disruption caused by the long hours, days, weeks, months of preparation, while we researched, wrote, edited, and proofed this book. Without your support, patience and understanding, we may not have made it this far.

Lifestyle as Medicine has never been so important, in the presence of the syndemic era of both infectious and chronic diseases. With the relatively recent arrival of a myriad of chronic diseases and the seeming difficulty of established health care to deal with them effectively, it is entirely appropriate to use Lifestyle Medicine to manage, reverse, and prevent the steady march of modern diseases around the world. Addressing the upstream causes, or metabolic inflammatory determinants of these diseases, is clearly the way ahead and is rooted in the accepted wisdom of evidence‐based science. These upstream determinants include social, environmental, economic, and more readily understood areas such as inactivity, poor nutrition, lack of emotional wellbeing, sleep disturbance, and exposure to toxic substances.

This very timely book will test you in some of these areas – and hopefully will encourage you to learn more about topics in which you feel less confident. And, in time, steer you towards seeking a solid qualified grounding in this effective and satisfying approach to health care. A meaningful biopsychosocial engagement with your patient or client will bear huge dividends not only for your patient or client, but also for the wider systems of health care in which you work.

So, enjoy working your way through this book of MCQs, learn lots from further reading of referenced material, and celebrate by introducing changes into your clinical or professional practice. A positive experience not to be missed!

Dr Rob Lawson FRCGP Dip IBLM/BSLM

Chairman, British Society of Lifestyle Medicine

President, European Lifestyle Medicine Council

Chairman, World Lifestyle Medicine Council

Lifestyle Medicine is a new and evolving speciality in Medicine. It is a distinct speciality aimed at treating the root cause of most chronic diseases using the strongest evidence‐based modalities available. Current approaches to medicine and health care offer inadequate solutions to the problems we face. Lifestyle Medicine seeks to address these issues to improve the health and wellbeing of individuals and societies. This chapter covers the definition of Lifestyle Medicine and provides some questions to test candidates understanding of the difference between Lifestyle Medicine and other disciplines such as Conventional, Complementary, and Alternative medicine (CAM), and Integrative and Functional Medicine, to mention but a few.

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