IS THIS GUIDE FOR YOU? This is not a textbook, nor is it a review of the growing literature of in this field. In this guide, we focus on what we know, and clinical lifestyle intervention in an academic research setting (Duke University Medical Center) is what we know best. This is a book of tips, the margin notes from years of trial and error. Much of it will appear as common sense. You will find this book useful if you: - Recruit for lifestyle studies (or other studies) in an academic setting - Study or teach at a technical school or university with a clinical research curriculum - Recruit in clinics, small hospitals, or doctor's offices, where health-care teams take care of study recruitment along with the main business of seeing patients