Up to 80% of all chronic diseases, including heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and obesity, can be prevented and in some cases reversed, through simple lifestyle modifications, with a whole-food, plant-based diet serving as a central pillar along with healthy lifestyle choices like exercise, restorative sleep, and healthy social connections. Want to connect to these healthy access points in our area?

Trying to navigate, 'what is actually healthy?' From restaurant menus to walking trails, look for the myGoodness in Health ™ heart-mark around town or online, as we discover together, healthy lifestyle choices right here at home.

Visit the free HealthySoul lending library in the Allendale County Hospital cafeteria. We carefully curate books, recipes and information sheets that align with evidence-based topics to reclaim our health with healthy choices.

Visit Abundance FoodRx inside the Allendale County Hospital's Outpatient Retail Pharmacy, Monday through Friday 9am to 6pm or Saturdays 9am to 1pm to check your eligibility for free options in both fresh and shelf-stable staples.

We're learning how to improve our health and well-being with food! Tuesdays at 5:15pm we gather locally to 'taste and see' how plant-focused cooking is easy, flavorful and rewards us with improved heart health and insulin sensitivity.

Visit the Abundance FoodRx healthy farmers market and 'taste and see all that is good'. This is a place where health, quality, and service meets savings; a place where healthy goodness is in every bag, every month, all year for you.

Supported by decades of research showing that a plant-focused diet can help us reach a healthy weight and lower our risks for heart disease and other chronic diseases, these recipe demos offer a taste of healthy and delicious at events.
We LOVE these resources developed by abcardio.org,
Download PDFVital tools for controlling cardiovascular disease (heart disease) and hypertension by empowering you with the clear knowledge needed for daily self-care and long-term, healthy lifestyle changes for a healthy heart.

While nearly half of US adults have high blood pressure (HBP), only 1 in 4 of us with HBP have it under control.

While nearly half of US adults have high blood pressure (HBP), only 1 in 4 of us with HBP have it under control.

Knowing our blood pressure category can help us take action early and reduce our risk for heart disease and stroke.

Knowing our blood pressure category can help us take action early and reduce our risk for heart disease and stroke.

Here's seven easy steps in measuring your blood pressure.

Here's seven easy steps in measuring your blood pressure.
Learn more in the power of six interconnected pillars—optimal nutrition, physical activity, restorative sleep, stress management, connectedness, and risky substance avoidance—to eliminate disease by their sources.
Lifestyle Medicine is the use of evidence-based therapies such as a whole food, plant-predominant dietary lifestyle, regular physical activity, restorative sleep, stress management, avoidance of risky substances and positive social connection for the treatment and reversal of chronic disease. (Click here or the image to view this resource developed by the ACLM (https://lifestylemedicine.org/)
Pulling the levers of lifestyle medicine may
reduce severity and improve biological immune responses to infections.
(Click here or the image to view this resource developed by the ACLM (https://lifestylemedicine.org/)
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