chronic disease
Ardmore Institute of Health Supports IFM in Helping Clinicians Address Chronic Disease
The Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM) has announced that Ardmore Institute of Health (AIH) has awarded it a $30,000 grant to accelerate the adoption of whole health and lifestyle medicine at academic institutions, helping up to 250 future clinicians implement equitable and preferred methods for preventing, treating and reversing chronic disease. For 11 years, AIH ...
A Pain in the Neck
NP examines natural approaches to treating pain and inflammation. Pain and inflammation both serve a practical purpose. Pain signals to the brain that part of the body requires medical care or that one needs to change one’s behavior in order to avoid harm. Meanwhile, inflammation helps the body respond to infections, injuries and other threats, ...
The Complementary & Integrative Health Care Disciplines Are an Underutilized Resource in the War on Chronic Disease
Decreasing health and the public’s increasing awareness—chronic disease incidence. There are concerning trends of chronic disease in the United States. Most recent data show that 48.6 percent of Americans have some form of cardiovascular disease. Approximately 43 percent of the U.S. is obese, and roughly one in 10 have diabetes. All of these are on ...
INM to Hold Free Practical Webinar on Nutrition in Pregnancy
The Institute for Natural Medicine (INM) invites families, health professionals and anyone invested in lifelong wellness to join a free webinar: The Power of Nutrition for a Healthy Start on Jan. 23 from 12-1:30 p.m. PST. This hour-and-a-half-long event will explore how decisions made by parents and providers during pregnancy and early childhood have a ...
Natural Approaches to Addressing Pain and Inflammation
What natural health experts and manufacturers are looking for now in the area of pain and inflammation. Pain statistics in the U.S. are alarming. From 2019 to 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), tracked chronic pain among adults. The study which compiled those results found that approximately 20.9 percent of adults in ...
NUNM Food as Medicine Institute Partners with Saint Luke’s Hospital
The National University of Natural Medicine (NUNM) has announced it has formed an educational partnership with Saint Luke’s Hospital in Kansas City, MO, to collaborate in the delivery of clinical and community education nutrition workshops and research in the Midwest. The Food as Medicine Institute Alliance was created to help expand community-based nutrition education by ...
GWI Launches Wellness Moonshot: Destination – A World Free of Preventable Disease
Lifestyle related diseases and the continuously skyrocketing cost of health care are creating a global crisis that is affecting us both physically and mentally. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the stark reality is that roughly 70 percent of all deaths each year are a result of preventable diseases, while the global ...
World Obesity Federation Confirms “Obesity is a Chronic Disease”
In a statement published in the leading journal Obesity Reviews, the World Obesity Federation confirms its support for defining obesity as a chronic, relapsing disease. The statement was prepared by a scientific committee of the Federation, which concluded that obesity fits the epidemiological model of a disease process except that the toxic or pathological agent is ...
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