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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.

How to Get the Most Out of Walking
Our friends at Harvard have suggested 6 Tips for proper walking form so you can get the most benefit out of the time you spend walking.

Ardmore Institute of Health Welcomes New Board Members – Drs. Rima and Vartabedian Join AIH Board
Ardmore Institute of Health is proud to welcome Drs Vartabedian and Rima to the Board of Trustees.

Are nuts part of a healthy diet?
In order to optimize your health, enjoy 1-2 one-ounce servings of nuts most days of the week, unless your doctor tells you not to.

What’s So Great About Walking?
The best kind of physical activity you can do is the kind you enjoy doing, because if you don’t enjoy it, you won’t do it over the long term. If you haven’t discovered your favorite activities, please consider walking.

Lifestyle Nursing
SWAU (Southwestern Adventist University), with the support of Ardmore Institute of Health and the American College of Lifestyle Medicine has led a series of convenings to advance the field of Lifestyle Nursing.

Blue Zones Project, Durant Team Announced
Sharecare, Inc. today announced that local staff positions have been filled to lead the transformation of Durant through Blue Zones Project® by Sharecare.

Sleep Like Your Health Depends On It
A good night’s sleep is increasingly being recognized as important as healthy eating and being physically active.

“Microbiome”, Small Friends in Low Places!
In order to optimize your gut microbiota and your health, eat an abundance of whole, unprocessed fiber foods, fruits, vegetables, beans, whole grains, nuts and seeds, at every meal, including probiotic-enriched foods and supplements when medically appropriate.

The Science Behind Full Plate Living
Full Plate Living promotes a high-fiber approach to healthy eating, highlighting the consumption of whole, unprocessed plant foods: fruits, vegetables, beans and legumes, whole grains, nuts and seeds. Besides being a rich source of dietary fiber, whole plant foods are abundant in essential vitamins and minerals, antioxidants, phytochemicals, as well as healthy fats and protein.

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.

AIH Helps to Fund Garden Project at Ardmore Adventist Academy
Click to watch Brock Meyer thank the Ardmore Institute of Health for supporting the project.

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.

Integrative Medicine Shares Immune Health Guidance
There are times we can benefit from levels of nutrients that are difficult to obtain by eating whole foods (sometimes you just can't eat enough whole food to obtain the level of needed nutrients).