Introductions to the role of lifestyle factors in medicine / Garry Egger, Andrew Binns, Stephan Rössner and Michael Sagner -- The epidemiology of chronic disease / Maximillian de Courten, Barbora de Courten, Garry Egger and Michael Sagner -- A "germ theory" approach for lifestyle medicine / Garry Egger -- structure for lifestyle medicine / Garry Egger, Michael Sagner, Hamish Meldrum, David Katz and Rob Lawson -- Everything you wanted to know about motivation (but weren't intrinsically motivated enough to ask) / John Litt, Rosanne Coutts and Garry Egger -- Self-management in lifestyle medicine / Malcolm Battersby, Garry Egger and John Litt -- Overweight and obesity / Stephan Rössner, Garry Egger, Andrew Binns and Michael Sagner -- Nutrition for the nondietician / Joanna McMillan Price and Garry Egger -- Fluids, fitness and fatness / Garry Egger and Suzanne Pearson -- Behavioral aspects of nutrition / Neil King and Garry Egger -- Physical activity / Mike Climstein and Garry Egger -- Physical activity / Mike Climstein and Garry Egger -- Stress / Gary Egger and Robert Reznick -- Dealing with worry and anxiety / Andrew Binns, Garry Egger and Robert Reznick -- Depression / Robert Reznick, Andrew Binns and Garry Egger -- Happiness and mental health / Julia Anwar-McHenry, Rob Donovan and Garry Egger -- Technology-induced pathology / John Stevens and Garry Egger -- To sleep, perchance to ... get everything else right / Caroline West and Garry Egger -- Health and the environment / Garry Egger, Andrew Binns and Stephan Rössner -- Meaningless, alienation and loss of culture/identity (MAL) as determinants of chronic disease / John Stevens, Andrew Binns, Bob Morgan and Garry Egger -- Preventing and managing injury at the clinical level / Kevin Wolfenden and Garry Egger - Rethinking chronic pain in a lifestyle medicine context / Chris Hayes, Caroline West and Garry Egger -- Understanding addictions / John Litt and Caroline West -- Medicines / Julian Henwood, Stephan Rössner and Andrew Binns -- Relationships, social inequity and distal factors in lifestyle medicine / Garry Egger, Andrew Binns, Stephan Rössner and Maximillian De Couten -- Sex and lifestyle / Michael Gillman and Garry Egger -- Lifestyle and oral health / Bernadette Drummond and Garry Egger -- Lifestyle and environmental influences on skin / Hugh Molloy and Garry Egger -- Lifestyle-related aspects of gastrointestinal health / Ross Hansen -- The next chapter / Michael Sagner, Amy McNeil and Ross Arena.--