The Best Produce Money Can Buy?!
To maximize the nutritional benefits from produce and to decrease exposure to pesticide residues and toxic metals, choose organic produce whenever you can.
Full Plate Living Nutrition Programs – Now Available at No Cost
We believe now more than ever it’s important to proactively make choices to improve health. Nutrition is foundational to a healthy lifestyle, so AIH has chosen to make our nutrition outreach program, Full Plate Support Membership, available to everyone at no cost.
Better, Best, Beef?!
Compared to the standard American diet, it would seem prudent to practice a Mediterranean-style eating pattern where beef (and all meat) is enjoyed less often, in smaller portions, as research links high intakes of red meat with an increased risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and colon cancer. Additionally, the World Health Organization has declared that red meat is a probable human carcinogen.(9) The nutritional benefits of beef can be maximized by consuming grass-fed and/or organic over conventionally-raised beef whenever possible.
AIH is now a Choice Partner of the Oklahoma Academy of Family Physicians
Ardmore Institute of Health works for a future where lifestyle change will be the preferred method to prevent, treat and reverse chronic diseases such as diabetes and obesity. So we’re proud to be a choice partner of OAFP.
Simple Steps to Self Care
When we take steps to care for ourselves we become more capable of sustainably caring for others.
Small Habit Adoption Can Lead to Big Change
The easiest way to accomplish a health goal may be through the adoption of tiny or micro habits.
Wash Your Hands, Fruits and Vegetables!
It is advisable to wash ALL fruits and vegetables before you eat them to ensure they are clean.
Why You Should Add More Beans to Your Meals
According to experts, people that live longer, healthier lives eat almost 4 times the amount of beans that we do as Americans.
Read the article and get the recipes in the Ardmoreite.
Studies associate intake of dairy milk with increased health risks
An association between the intake of dairy milk and breast cancer was recently published in the International Journal of Epidemiology.
Support Your Immune System – Free PDF Download
George Washington wrote in 1799: “…offensive operations, often times, is the surest, if not the only (in some cases) means of defence".(1) Washington was talking about military operations, but the principle is also true in supporting your immune system’s daily fight to keep you healthy. A good defense against infections and illness is a strong immune system.
Eat Your Immune System Strong
Never has the old adage: the best defense is a strong offense, been more timely. The best defense against various infections is a well-tuned immune system, and there’s a lot we can do to keep it that way.
Habits Your Immune System Can Depend On
What do walking, cooking, and positive nighttime rituals have in common? They are all activities that strengthen the immune system. There is a lot of scientific evidence to indicate that healthy habits can give your immune system a boost.
Foods & Recipes that Fight Heart Disease
In this article Michelle shares the foods that fight heart disease. And... 2 #Recipes. :) #HealthyCasserole
Health Empowers You: Impact of a School-Based Physical Activity Program in Elementary School Students, Georgia, 2015-2016
Ardmore Institute of Health supported this study along with the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Georgia Foundation.
Design and Implementation of a Lifestyle Medicine Curriculum in Undergraduate Medical Education
Including Lifestyle Medicine in Medical Education
Including Lifestyle Medicine in Medical Education: Rationale for American College of Preventive Medicine/American Medical Association Resolution 959