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Would you like to be involved and help support this special bike ride? You can! All donations will go directly to the Lifestyle Medicine Fund at Loma Linda University.

We encourage you to give by the mile, to spur us on as we pedal! 
Remember that 5 cents/mile = $20; 10 cents/mile = $40; 25 cents/mile = $100;
 $1/mile = $400; and $20/mile = $8,000.

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About the Lifestyle Medicine Fund

The Loma Linda University (LLU) Lifestyle Medicine (LM) Fund has been established to promote the principles of whole person health care and healthy lifestyle which were so important to those who founded the institution in 1905. A LM Fund is particularly appropriate to Loma Linda because LLU as been a leader in LM research and education for much of its’ existence. LLU contributions to LM include the Adventist Health Study which documented increased longevity of close to 10 years in individuals who practice a healthy lifestyle, and development of some of the first educational programs in LM including training at the Masters, Doctoral and physician residency levels.

Health care providers who practice LM use nutrition, exercise, rest, and other simple, natural interventions for both prevention and treatment of disease. LM is founded on a strong evidence base that points to the value and cost-effectiveness of these approaches. It directly addresses the root causes of most chronic and degenerative illness, including obesity, diabetes, atherosclerosis (the cause of most heart attacks and strokes), and many cancers (breast, prostate, and colon). LM is increasingly valued by many organizations who recognize lifestyle change as vital to reversing many common disease processes.

The LM Fund is administered by the Department of Preventive Medicine in the LLU School of Medicine (SM). It is set up as an endowment, with interest going in perpetuity towards supporting and creating the future of LM in the USA and around the world. It specifically helps support: 1) the Preventive & Lifestyle Medicine Interest Group (PLMIG), an active club for interested medical students; 2) scholarships to make available membership in the American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) for students with particular interest; 3) student/faculty research in a variety of LM areas; and 4) other continued improvements in the teaching of LM at Loma Linda. Its’ overarching goal is to change how health care is provided everywhere and to promote a “more abundant life” (John 10:10).

Contributions to the LM Fund at LLU are a unique way to support not only the concepts of LM, but also the future of LM. Without this fund, the pathway that leads students towards significant LM contributions is not clear. With the LM fund there are concrete resources that support and encourage students to focus their careers (or at least components of their careers) on this new but rapidly growing specialty.






Lifestyle Medicine at Loma Linda

  1. Loma Linda has had the experience of more than 100 years of healthful living—it’s population has less cancer, heart disease, diabetes and obesity—than others.  Declared by National Geographic and the book, Blue Zone by Dan Beuttner, to have the healthiest, longest living population in North America.  The Loma Linda experience and the results of healthy living has been reported in more than 300 articles in the world-wide scientific literature and has been a major stimulant of the push for Americans to eat more fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and nuts.
  2. The Loma Linda University Lifestyle Medicine Fund is the most effective we know to support prevention of cancer and other lifestyle related disease.   It is organized to 
  1. Fund further research in health habits for longer, active, high quality life.
  2. Strengthen teaching of medical students and medical residents in lifestyle medicine—how to effectively and efficiently diagnose, prevent, and treat lifestyle diseases.
  3. Establish the scientific base for Lifestyle Medicine Practice.  The Loma Linda program is
    • The only accredited training program anywhere approved by both the 1) American Board of Family Medicine and the 2) American Board of Preventive Medicine.
    • Endorsed, also, by the American Medical Association, the American College of Preventive Medicine, and the American College of Lifestyle Medicine
2.   Lifestyle medicine emphasizes getting at the root cause of disease, not just diagnosing and treating disease after it has occurred.  LM could significantly lower America’sastronomical health care costs.  We believe one cannot find a better investment for cancer and lifestyle disease prevention anywhere else.      P. William Dysinger, MD, MPH, 9/26/2012

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