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The Safe and Effective Use of Plant-Based Diets with Guidelines for Health Professionals
This article in the journal Nutrients reviews the scientific data on plant-based diets to summarize their preventative and therapeutic role in chronic disease. Nutrient needs and supplements for vitamin B12, calcium, vitamin D, iron, zinc, and omega-3 fats, are discussed including guidelines for physicians.
Development of Culinary and Self-Care Programs in Diverse Settings: Theoretical Considerations and Available Evidence
Ardmore Institute of Health helped to fund the Emory Healthy Kitchen collaborative to promote learnings around teaching kitchens and lifestyle medicine. This article in Analytic Review provides a qualitative summary of the evidence-informed development of the project.
Building Health Equity: Action Steps From the American College of Lifestyle Medicine’s Health Disparities Solutions Summit (HDSS) 2020
This paper provides background on the realities of health disparities in the United States, introduces the entrance point of lifestyle medicine (LM) practice in the struggle for health equity, and summarizes Summit proceedings and recommended action steps.
Lifestyle Medicine and Economics: A Proposal for Research Priorities Informed by a Case Series of Disease Reversal
A recent article in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health demonstrates the value of Lifestyle Medicine by detailing four cases that utilized an intensive, therapeutic lifestyle intervention change approach to dramatically reverse disease and reduce healthcare costs.
Plant-based dietary intake moderates adverse childhood experiences associated with early mortality in an older adventist cohort
A study published in the Journal of Psychosomatic Research indicates plant-based dietary intake moderates adverse childhood experiences associated with early mortality.
How to Balance Processed Food on Your Plate
Learn the 4 groups of processed foods and how you can balance them on your plate.
Eating to Reduce Your Risk of Colon Cancer
The good news is there are several lifestyle factors that affect your risk of colorectal cancer that you can do something about.
Plant-based Protein, More Than a Hill of Beans
What if you can’t (or won’t) eat beans? Are there other plant proteins?
National Food Is Medicine Summary of Evidence
Click here to review the summary of evidence document.
Squash Your Hunger
Adding winter squash to your diet has many health benefits and we’re sharing 3 recipes from Full Plate Living.
Eat More, Weigh Less
What if you didn’t have to count calories and decrease portions to lose weight?
A Fiber Food Worth Tooting About
The musical fruit has a lot more to offer than gas.
Health Benefits of Olive Oil
This famous monounsaturated fat helps lower risk of heart disease and makes a healthy substitution to improve your health.
Canned, cooked tomatoes can reduce the risk of prostate cancer
Cooked tomatoes may reduce the risk of prostate cancer according to a recent study conducted by researchers at Loma Linda University Health.
Are Non-Dairy Cheeses Really Healthier?
With that interest there has been an explosion of processed plant-based foods, including non-dairy cheese alternatives, which have seen a hefty 45% growth in sales.(1) Are these non-dairy cheeses actually healthier than their dairy counterparts?
Green Gold – The gold standard in good nutrition
When it comes to promoting health and longevity, there’s a group of vegetables that’s as precious, valuable and enduring as gold...only they’re green. Green gold.
Plants, It’s What’s for Dinner
Don’t miss the recipes in this download from the Ardmoreite.
A 1/2 an Avocado a Day Keeps the Doctor Away
You’ve heard the familiar adage: “An apple a day keeps the doctor away.” But how does that saying also apply to an avocado, given that 80% of its calories come from fat, versus only 3% in an apple?
The Healthiest Way to Satisfy a Sweet Tooth
Fruit has long been touted as part of a healthy diet, and, yet only 1 in 10 adults eat the minimum recommended amount of fruit per day: 1½ to 2 cups.
A Fruitful Path to Wellbeing
Check out these recipes in the Ardmoreite.