Nutritional Therapy
The goal of Nutritional Therapy is simply to restore proper eating habits and nourish the body with whole, live foods to give the body what it needs to perform in the manner it was designed to; educate the patient in what foods to seek out and what to avoid (and why); to support the patient as they make Healthy decisions and turn their lives around; and to celebrate the return of their Life as Health returns and their quality of life improves.
The fact is, the foodstuffs we are sold through commercial media-- with the seduction of our taste buds-- is causing the premature aging and debilitation of an entire population. One only need to look at other cultures and their eating habits and compare their health (and health problems) to ours. That should make you curious as to why...... It did me.
The fact is, the foodstuffs we are sold through commercial media-- with the seduction of our taste buds-- is causing the premature aging and debilitation of an entire population. One only need to look at other cultures and their eating habits and compare their health (and health problems) to ours. That should make you curious as to why...... It did me.
One must eat to live and not live to eat. --Moliere
For thousands of years, food has been regarded as potent medicine. Few
people realize that common foods found in our diet, contain many of the
same properties as the synthetic drugs manufactured in the laboratory
(but without the side effects), and that our extensive natural food
sources actually possess the power to combat illness and prolong life.
Around us everywhere is evidence of the impact that foods have on our Health. Nutrition from food-- who would have thought?
Research from all over the world shows that many foods perform in a similar fashion modern drugs, and sometimes better. For instance, onions raise beneficial HDL cholesterol levels in the blood more effectively than most prescription heart medications. Garlic compounds match aspirin in preventing blood clots that can lead to heart attacks and strokes. Ginger surpasses Dramamine in suppressing motion sickness. This is only the tip of the iceberg. By making small changes in your diet; i.e. deliberately eating more of the foods known to have a positive health benefit, you may prevent and alleviate many acute and chronic conditions such as heart disease, hypertension, cancer, constipation, irritable bowel disorders, infections, ulcers, arthritis, headaches.... the list goes on. Indeed, most chronic diseases are the result of poor lifestyle choices. I recommend the The Food Pharmacy by Jean Carper for a fascinating look at food and the impact it has on your Health. Let Food be thy Medicine and Medicine be thy Food. -- Hippocrates |
You ARE what you eat.....
It shouldn't be any wonder that the Health of the general population needlessly suffers from a wide range of dis-eases of metabolism, degeneration and declining quality of life. We are immersed in a sea of processed, adulterated and nutritionally deficient foodstuffs that the body simply is not designed to ingest. The food we eat becomes the building blocks of our body-- the very substances that our cells are made of when they divide. The poorer quality of material the body has to work with, the poorer the resulting cell replication. For example, free radical formation damages the accuracy of cell replication, binding to the DNA and creating errors in copying cellular information.
Dead, processed foods contribute to free radical formation, and whole, live and unprocessed foods inhibit free radical formation. Free radicals add to the oxidative stress of the body, and anti oxidants prevent it. Nature provides food for all creatures, and the further from the natural sources of food we get, the harder the body has to work to break it down and use it. Then there is the fact that processing destroys the nutrients, and adulterated substances are added. Pretty simple when you think about it. I've never seen a hot dog bush, but the peer reviewed journal Cancer Causes and Control (1994; Mar; 5(2): 195-202) published a study that indicated that children eating more than twelve hot dogs a month (that’s barely three hot dogs a week) have nearly ten times the risk of leukemia as children who eat none. Think about that one. That's just one example. |
