American Diabetes Association
Standards of Care in Diabetes—2025
Prioritizes healthy eating, physical activity, and adequate sleep; intensive lifestyle behavior change with ≥7% weight loss and ≥150 min/week physical activity for high-risk adults
Resources
Delivering Root-Cause Care
Evidence alone does not change care—implementation does. This resource center brings together the clinical evidence, practice guidelines, training programs, workflow tools, and implementation models needed to integrate lifestyle medicine into real-world care settings. Whether you are leading a health system, caring for patients, developing clinical programs, or advancing population health initiatives, these resources are designed to help you accelerate adoption and achieve measurable outcomes.
Evidence
The Research Behind Remission
Explore the growing body of evidence demonstrating how lifestyle medicine can prevent, treat, and in many cases achieve remission of chronic disease. ACLM’s Evidence Library curates key studies, systematic reviews, and outcomes data supporting lifestyle interventions across multiple disease states.
Guidelines
What Leading Organizations Recommend
Lifestyle medicine is increasingly reflected in national clinical recommendations.
American Heart Association
2026 AHA/ACC/ADA/ASN Guideline for the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Management of Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic Syndrome
Heart-healthy dietary pattern high in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, plant-based protein, and unsaturated fats; limit added sugars, sodium, and ultra-processed foods
Obesity Medicine Association
Nutritional priorities to support GLP-1 therapy for obesity: A joint Advisory from ACLM, ASN, OMA, and The Obesity Society
GLP-1 therapy should be integrated with individualized nutrition, behavior change, and lifestyle interventions including nutrition, exercise, and sleep
implementation
Bring Lifestyle Medicine into Practice
Ready-to-Use Resources
Access practical toolkits designed to help clinicians, employers, and healthcare organizations launch and scale lifestyle medicine initiatives. Each toolkit includes implementation guidance, resources, templates, and best practices developed from real-world experience. To explore the full catalog of clinicial toolkits become an ACLM member.
Launch and expand lifestyle medicine group visits with resources that support planning, delivery, patient engagement, and operational success.
Help employers and organizations improve workforce health, reduce chronic disease burden, and support employee well-being through lifestyle medicine strategies.
Integrate evidence-based obesity pharmacotherapy with lifestyle medicine approaches to improve outcomes and support long-term health restoration.
Take Action
Make Health Your Standard of Care
Restoring health requires alignment across the system. Whether you deliver care, design systems, shape policy, or are seeking better outcomes—there is a role to play.
For Health Systems
Build models of care that scale disease remission and health restoration. Integrate lifestyle medicine to improve outcomes, reduce cost, and strengthen workforce engagement.
For Policymakers
Redefine success in chronic disease. Support policies that enable and reward prevention, medication deprescription, and disease remission as standard outcomes.
For Clinicians
Shift from disease management to health restoration. Access training, certification, tools, and a network implementing remission-focused care.
For Patients
You have options beyond lifelong symptom management. You have agency and support. Find a clinician, understand your rights, and access tools to support your path to better health.