The Evolution of Lifestyle Medicine Education: What, Why, How, Who, and What Now

 Over the past 2 decades, lifestyle medicine education efforts have evolved. The requisite questions of what, why, how and who needed to be addressed for lifestyle medicine. The first question to answer was, “What is lifestyle medicine?” The next question was, “Why do people need lifestyle medicine?” After that came the question, “How do health care professionals practice lifestyle medicine?” Then there was the question of “Who can practice lifestyle medicine, and how do clinicians get paid to do lifestyle medicine?” And now the question is, what now?