Donald B. Ardell

Biographical Information
"Donald B. Ardell wrote High Level Wellness: An Alternative to Doctors, Drugs, and Disease. It was first published in 1976 by Rodale Press, with editions over the years by Bantam Books and Ten-Speed Press. Don would later write a dozen additional wellness books, including Die Healthy (with Grant Donovan), 14 Days to Wellness and most recently, Aging Beyond Belief and REAL Wellness...

"Don has been a member of the board of trustees of the National Wellness Institute for over a decade. He is one of ten Americans given the Healthy America Fitness Leaders Award in 1991 by the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports.

"Don is has won numerous national and four world championships in triathlon and duathlon competitions in Tasmania (1994), Montreal (1999), the Gold Coast of Australia (2009) and most recently, Budapest (2010). In July 2011 at the annual National Wellness Conference, Don was given the Halbert L. Dunn Wellness Award, one of the highest honors in the health promotion and wellness fields."