The Teaching Kitchen Collaborative is hosting the inaugural Teaching Kitchen Symposium in Salt Lake City, UT on November 13-14, 2024. Designed for professionals dedicated to advancing hands-on approaches to nutrition education and behavior change in teaching kitchen settings, the symposium will feature a diverse lineup of expert speakers, invaluable networking opportunities, and engagement with local community and industry partners.

Ardmore Institute of Health is delighted to sponsor this two-day continuing education event.

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Most people look at the food they eat when attempting to control blood sugar levels, and rightly so. However, other daily choices play a role as well. In this free workshop, diabetes educator Karen Smith outlines lifestyle habits that affect blood sugar levels and how to use them to your advantage.

Date: Tuesday, November 12th
Time: 11:00am CT

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Karen Smith's career as a registered dietician and diabetes educator has evolved as she learned more about lifestyle choices' power to achieve and maintain good health. Using the psychology of behavior change, mindfulness, and self-compassion, she partners with clients and deeply listens to their wants and needs. She understands how other lifestyle behaviors, not just nutrition, affect our health, and she has a holistic approach to guiding her clients toward their ideal vision of wellness.

The American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) is hosting the Lifestyle Medicine Conference in Orlando, FL on October 27-30, 2024. Medical professionals from across the globe will gather to learn about the latest research, explore implementation models, and hear about cutting-edge advancements in the field from top experts. Full Plate Living is delighted to sponsor and exhibit at the conference.

Click here to learn more about Full Plate Living’s educational session, Facilitating Full Plate Living - A Free ACLM Certified Nutrition Program.

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In this free workshop, Dr. Darren Morton will address the growing well-being crisis, where rates of depression and anxiety are escalating, and explore powerful lifestyle approaches that can help. Drawing on research from Lifestyle Medicine, Neuroscience, and Positive Psychology, he will uncover simple, science-based strategies to lift your mood and your life.

Date: Monday, October 21
Time: 5:00pm CT

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Dr. Darren Morton is an internationally recognized wellbeing expert and Director of the Lifestyle Medicine & Health Research Centre at Avondale University. He is a Fellow of the Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine and helped develop the International Board of Lifestyle Medicine’s certification exam. Darren's research focuses on evidence-based approaches to mental health, leading to programs like The Lift Project, which have impacted thousands globally. He is an author & avid outdoorsman. Learn more about the Lift Project at https://www.theliftproject.global/.

The Health Enhancement Research Organization (HERO) is hosting the Forum24 in Baltimore, MD on October 7-9, 2024. Sessions will feature a balance of business leaders, organizational change experts, and health and well-being scientists who all share a passion for creating cultures of health. Ardmore Institute of Health is proud to sponsor the forum.

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The AIH-sponsored CMO Summit, When Food is Medicine, What is the Physician’s Role?, will take place on October 7. The summit is designed to address the specific needs and interests of corporate Chief Medical Officers, Chief Health Officers, and Corporate Medical Directors.

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The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) is hosting Family Medicine Experience (FMX) in Phoenix, AZ on September 24-28, 2024. Full Plate Living will exhibit and share more about free nutrition resources available to family physicians and their patients.

Ardmore Institute of Health (AIH) is delighted to sponsor the FMX Culinary Workshop: Walk the Walk, Talk the Talk, and Heal Thyself. This workshop will dive into the science behind culinary medicine and the optimal food-as-medicine plan for preventing and treating most diseases and will feature a live cooking demo and a food sample.

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The National Association of Community Health Centers is hosting the Community Health Institute (CHI) & Expo in Atlanta, GA on August 24-26, 2024.

Full Plate Living will exhibit and share more about free nutrition resources available to community health centers.

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In this workshop, Elliot Smith will explore the ways depression can especially discourage those with a faith tradition and how various spiritual practices can help cope with symptoms of depression.

Date: Tuesday, August 20, 2024
Time: 12:00pm CT

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If you feel that you are struggling with depression, you don’t have to struggle alone. You can call The National Mental Health Hotline at 866-903-3787 to speak to a professional about depression and get help with mental health resources.

Elliot is the manager for the Spiritual Care department at the Kettering Main Hospital. He joined this department in 2017. He is an ordained minister, holds a Masters of Arts in Theology and a Master’s in Social Work and has experience as an individual and group therapist.

In this workshop, Registered Dietitian Kayli Anderson discusses what might be causing you to override your hunger and fullness cues, why it’s so powerful to understand these signals, and how to tune back in and listen to them so you always know what your body needs.

Date: Tuesday, July 30, 2024
Time: 11:00am CT

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Kayli Anderson is passionate about helping people build a healthier relationship between food and themselves. Kayli is certified in lifestyle medicine, women’s integrative medicine, intuitive eating, exercise physiology, and natural foods cooking. She serves as Lead Faculty of ACLM’s Food As Medicine Course and Co-chair of their Women’s Health Group. She is a Fellow of ACLM and the creator of the educational website plantbasedmavens.com. She is a contributing author of three lifestyle medicine textbooks, including the first one on women’s health.

The Joy & Wholeness Summit will take place in Santa Ana Pueblo, NM on July 24-26, 2024 and will offer a unique combination of keynote speakers, specialty learning tracks, networking opportunities, roundtables, and live Q&A sessions, all designed to provide attendees with an immersive and meaningful experience.

Ardmore Institute of Health is proud to sponsor the summit.

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With farmers' markets brimming with produce this time of year, summertime meals are both colorful and delicious.

In this workshop, Lifestyle Medicine Facilitator Trish Smith invites us to her kitchen, where she demonstrates how to create her favorite summertime lunch dishes—bright, batchable, and family-friendly.

Since consuming a fiber-rich diet, Trish has lost 80 pounds and is a proud advocate for the benefits of a plant-forward lifestyle. As a certified facilitator and instructor, she has assisted individuals with weight loss and helped them improve blood pressure, cholesterol, and HbA1c numbers related to cardiovascular disease and diabetes.

Date: Tuesday, Jun 11, 2024
Time: 10:00 am CDT

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Health Meets Food is hosting the 10th Annual Culinary Medicine Conference in Washington, DC on June 6-9, 2024.

Ardmore Institute of Health is proud to sponsor the conference.

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Judging by the posts we’re bombarded with on social media, most of us have concluded that nutrition scientists disagree on pretty much everything. Either that, or they’re constantly changing their mind.

As a Nutrition Scientist who has conducted and published dozens of human nutrition trials, Dr. Gardner has a true understanding of what the scientific community agrees on. Despite all the various diets promoted on social media, there are at least four factors that all these diets have in common – and there’s substantial room for improvement even in those four areas. Beyond the top four, there are an additional half dozen factors that almost all nutrition professionals agree on.

In this workshop, you’ll learn how to apply the principles of “with what” and “instead of what” when it comes to addressing most nutrition controversies – a strategy to help you rise above the latest diet trends. You’ll leave knowing the foods most scientists agree are good for a long, healthy life.

Professor Gardner will present all of this and more with his unique blend of humor and evidence-based science.

Date: Monday, May 6, 2024
Time: 4:00pm CT

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Christopher Gardner, professor of medicine at Stanford and nutrition scientist, studies what to consume and avoid for optimal health and how best to motivate healthy dietary behavior change. He is currently chair of the American Heart Association's Nutrition Committee and serves on the 2025 US Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. He has conducted and published dozens of human nutrition trials. For the past 13 years, he has coordinated a Summer Farm Camp for children in Sunnyvale in collaboration with the Santa Clara Unified School District and now with the Ardmore Foundation.

Are you interested in learning how to treat obesity more effectively?

The Obesity Medicine Association is presenting the Obesity Medicine 2024 Conference in Denver, Colorado on April 24-28. The event will feature top obesity medicine experts and a diverse offering of obesity medicine education.

Full Plate Living will be sharing about free nutrition resources available to patients at booth #309.

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Health Meets Food 2023 Conference

Orlando, Florida June 2023

University of Central Florida Rosen College of Hospitality Management

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