Celebrate Lifestyle Medicine Week with AIH-supported Resources Including Full Plate Living, ACLM’s LEADR program, and AAFP’s Whole Health Guide
Ardmore Institute of Health (AIH) is celebrating Lifestyle Medicine Week, a global celebration dedicated to raising awareness about the powerful role healthy behaviors play in treating, reversing, and preventing chronic disease.
What is Lifestyle Medicine?
Lifestyle Medicine is prescribed by clinicians who apply evidence-based, therapeutic lifestyle interventions as modalities to prevent, treat, and often reverse chronic conditions. Interventions focus on six key pillars: nutrition, physical activity, stress management, avoiding risky substances, restorative sleep, and social connections.
What is Whole Person Care?
Whole Person Care is person-centered, relationship-based care that takes into account the social, spiritual, emotional, and behavioral aspects of health as well as the environment in which a person lives. Whole Person Care is a multifaceted approach that considers conventional medical care, complementary medicine, Lifestyle Medicine, and other interventions. It centers around what matters to you, rather than what is the matter with you.
Why are Lifestyle Medicine and Whole Person Care important?
Lifestyle Medicine and Whole Person Care have the power to transform the way people are cared for in America. Healthcare today is often focused on reactive treatment and symptom management rather than disease prevention, disease reversal, and long-term wellbeing. When physicians are equipped to deliver Whole Person Care with an emphasis on Lifestyle Medicine, patients are empowered to take control of their own health journey, resulting in healthier individuals and communities.
Celebrate Lifestyle Medicine Week with us:
Start utilizing Full Plate Living in your practice. Full Plate Living is a research-backed nutrition program, offered free of cost by AIH, that helps people add more whole, unprocessed fiber foods to meals they’re already eating. We provide all the materials needed to refer your patients to the Online Program or host a Shared Medical Appointment Program.
Learn more about the Lifestyle Empowerment Approach for Diabetes Remission (LEADR) program. LEADR is an AIH-supported diabetes intervention curriculum developed by ACLM. Health systems and practices interested in using the LEADR program in 2025 are invited to run a pilot and can complete this survey to sign up.
Explore the AAFP’s Whole Health resources. These AIH-supported resources, including a comprehensive Whole Health Guide, are designed to help physicians integrate Whole Health approaches into their daily practice.
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