Events
Partnering with leading organizations, Ardmore Institute of Health (AIH) features conferences, workshops, live courses, and local initiatives that promote Whole Health.
End Overeating By Learning To Tune In To Your Body’s Cues
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
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.
Workshop: Favorite Summertime Recipes with Trish Smith
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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Expert Guidance Through Nutrition Controversies
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.
Full Plate Living Workshop: Build Your Own Recipe
Cooking instructor and recipe developer Lauren Chandler uses 20+ years of experience in this fun meal-planning workshop to help you get more comfortable in your kitchen. Get set for success with simple knife skills, guidelines for creating meals, and an understanding of how to pair different flavors.
Popular GLP-1 RA Weight Loss and Diabetes Drugs
This webinar with obesity medicine physician Jonathan Bonnet, MD, MPH, a GLP-1RA expert, will answer all your questions about the medications, how they work, their benefits, their side effects, and how they can be combined with lifestyle changes to optimize your weight loss and body composition.
Prescribing GLP-1 RA Medications & Lifestyle Habits to Maximize Patient Success
This webinar with obesity medicine physician Jonathan Bonnet, MD, MPH, will go through all the ins and outs of what these medications are, how they work, how to safely prescribe and deprescribe them, their risks and benefits, their common side effects, and how to determine if a patient is a good candidate for them or not.
Full Plate Living Workshop: Heart Disease and Its Solutions
In this workshop, Dr. Aggarwal gets to the roots of heart disease – what it is and what puts us at risk. You will understand your own risk of developing heart disease and finish with a discussion of what you can do to reduce those risks.
Free Webinar on Shared Medical Appointments
Are you interested in promoting lifestyle medicine principles to your patients in a setting where you can be compensated?
What Science Actually Says About Health
In this workshop, we'll spend some time talking about the things we DO agree on, the things we KNOW are good for our health, plus, how to actually get ourselves to do them, because, let's face it... that's the hard part.
The Link Between the Food We Eat and Our Mental Health
In this workshop, psychologist Gia Merlo, MD, MBA will review the development of the gut and brain, including the connection between mental and physical health.
Finding Peace in the Storm: Coping with Anxiety
In this workshop, Smith will explore the difference between 'normal anxiety' and 'clinical anxiety', common sources of anxiety, and the importance of treating the 'whole self' when searching for answers.
Happiness and Social Connection as Medicine
This Full Plate Living workshop is on the role social connection and happiness has on our health.
Workshop: Inflammation, Heart Disease and Healing
Dr. Aggarwal shares the steps you can take to heal your heart and the lifestyle changes that will help you get there.
How an Anti-Inflammatory Diet Can Improve Your Health
Join this free Full Plate Living workshop to learn how an anti-inflammatory diet can improve you health and…
How Eating Intuitively Can Help You Stop Dieting and Make Peace with Food
If you've struggled with dieting, emotional eating, or feeling guilt and frustration around food, this workshop is for you! In this workshop, you'll learn how to tune out the noise of fad diets and tune in to your body's signals to help you eat more intuitively. We'll also cover hot topics like the real reason you eat for emotional reasons, body image, and how to reclaim the joy and pleasure of food.
How Finding Purpose Can Enhance Your Health
In this Full Plate Living workshop Dr. Beth Frates takes a closer look at how finding your purpose can enhance your health.
Find out what research says about purpose and its relationship to longevity and chronic conditions. We'll also dive into how to find and live your life with purpose.
Explainer Workshop: Healthy Gut Microbiome 101
Your gut bacteria (microbiome) affects your weight, immune system and blood sugar levels, as well as your risk of heart disease.
Join PhD nutritionist Diana Fleming as she takes a closer look at the gut microbiome and the dietary choices that can improve your gut health.
Workshop: Are You Eating Enough: Carbohydrates, Fat & Protein?
Have you ever wondered if you're eating too much or too little? Been confused about the various messages on how many carbs to eat, or how much fat you should consume, or if you're getting enough protein?