Lifestyle Medicine and Nutrition | Emory School of Medicine

Lifestyle medicine is the simplest, yet most powerful approach to true health and healing. Lifestyle medicine advocates for the use of healthy everyday choices and habits to achieve peak performance and well-being.

The Emory General Internal Medicine faculty are committed to improving the lifestyle of Emory Healthcare patients and all individuals. We get to the root cause of disease by translating research into actionable self-care tools. Our program highlights five pillars of health:

Nutrition and culinary skills
Exercise and physical activity
Stress management techniques and mindfulness
Meaning and connectedness
Sleep

Faculty

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Publications

Expanding the Lifestyle Medicine Inpatient Consultation Services at Loma Linda University Health: A Transformative Tool for Chronic Diseases Management in Tertiary Care Settings.

Participation in the Georgia Food for Health program and cardiovascular disease risk factors: A longitudinal observational study.

A teaching kitchen program improves employee micronutrient and healthy dietary consumption.

Rationale and Design of the Emory Healthy Kitchen Collaborative: A 12-month Culinary-Based Lifestyle Program.

Cost Analysis of Developing, Implementing, and Evaluating a Multi-Disciplinary Teaching Kitchen.

Trends in Diet Counseling Among Stroke Versus Non-Stroke Patients: Evidence from the NAMCS, 2011–2016.

Association Between Business Travel, Health-Related Behaviors, and Adiposity.

Percutaneous CT-guided cryovagotomy in patients with class I or class II obesity: A pilot trial.

Trends in lifestyle counseling for adults with and without diabetes in the U.S., 2005–2015.

Qualitative research study on addressing barriers to healthy diet among low-income individuals at an urban, safety-net hospital.

Food Security and Clinical Outcomes of the 2017 Georgia Fruit and Vegetable Prescription Program.

The impact of medically tailored meals and nutrition therapy on biometric and dietary outcomes among food-insecure patients with congestive heart failure: a matched cohort study.

Funded Projects

Emory Healthy Kitchen Collaborative Virtual Program

Funding Source: Ardmore Institute of Health

Co-PIs/Key Staff: Sharon Bergquist, MD, Miranda A. Moore, PHD, Jonathan Bonnet, MD

Project Summary: This project aims to assess the feasibility, acceptability, and efficacy of a virtually delivered Emory Healthy Kitchen Collaborative (EHKC) program, building upon the success of the in-person version. The goal is to create an effective and engaging virtual program format that can be scaled to reach a larger, diverse population, thereby expanding access to the program's behavioral and quality of life improvements demonstrated in the original EHKC.

Emory Healthy Kitchen Community

Funding Source: Ardmore Institute of Health

Co-PIs/Key Staff: Sharon Bergquist, MD, Miranda A. Moore, PHD, Jonathan Bonnet, MD

Project Summary: The Emory Healthy Kitchen Collaborative (EHKC) was launched in 2019 as a one-year clinical trial for Emory employees, proving to be feasible, acceptable, and effective in improving health-related knowledge, behavior, and skills. The aim is to create a hybrid program delivered to patients and the community, evaluating its clinical impact and feasibility. This 12-month clinical trial will assess the deployment of video-recorded curriculum along with experiential classes led by health coaches at a community wellness center, potentially providing a cost-effective method for implementing a lifestyle behavior change program.