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Donald B. Ardell has been one of the leading figures in the wellness movement for four decades. The author of numerous books and articles on wellness, he has also been a popular speaker on wellness-related topics, appearing in every U.S. state except Rhode Island and Maine, all of Canada's provinces and throughout Australia. ==Academia and publishing== Ardell earned a bachelor's degree in sociology in 1963 from George Washington University in 1963. He attended GWU on a full basketball scholarship after playing for three years on U.S. Air Force teams. Ardell played three years at GWU, leading the his team to a Southern Conference Championship in 1962 and a berth in the NCAA tournament. He earned a masters degree in city and regional planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1965 and attended Stanford University Business School's Senior Executive Program in 1973. He was awarded his doctorate in health and public policy in 1977 by Union Institute and University. In 1974 he wrote a series of articles in the ''American Journal of Health Planning'' that described how health planning could be reoriented from regulating hospital expansions to promoting healthy lifestyles. He reported that before the essential demise of health planning in the late 70's, one-third of area-wide health planning agencies had adopted a goal of promoting wellness. In 1977 he published ''High Level Wellness: An Alternative to Doctors, Drugs, and Disease'', expanding the concept of ''High Level Wellness'' first employed by Halbert L. Dunn. Ardell's book was a best-seller, published initially by Rodale Press and then in numerous reprint editions by Bantam Books and Ten-Speed Press. He later wrote more than a dozen additional wellness books, including ''14 Days to a Wellness Lifestyle'', ''REAL Wellness'' and ''Aging Beyond Belief''. He was an adjunct professor at the University of Central Florida where he guided that university's Campus Wellness Center from 1984 until 1996. He started published the quarterly ''Ardell Wellness Report'' in 1984 (74 editions were produced) and for over a decade has produced a weekly electronic newsletter by the same name. As of mid-2011, nearly 700 of these AWRs have been distributed worldwide. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Donald Ardell」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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