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Nutrition

Good Nutrition - the Cornerstone of Great Health

Nutritional Medicine involves is using vitamins, minerals and trace elements to correct imbalances.  The goal is to restore optimum ratios  of all nutrients that are required for day-to-day function.

A deficiency or imbalance of essential nutrients can cause significant symptoms, or underpin some diseases states.

Llifestyle choices, mal-absorption of nutrients as well as metabolic derangements can lead to an imbalance in your nutritional status.

Nutritional Medicine aims to assess you as an individual, so ascertain the specifi imbalances and correct them using vitamin and mineral supplements, as well as recommending lifestyle
and general dietary adjustments, for a lasting benefit.  Like with all other therapies, the work is done together with you, the client, so every dietary change and lifestyle adjustment is discussed and alternative solutions are explored together!

It is often underestimated what effect the lack of certain minerals and vitamins can have on behavior and development of children.   For example, a number of learning problems, such as ADHD, Aspergers Syndrom, Dyslexia, and autism may be significantly connected to nutritional imbalances.

Once those have been corrected there is usually a marked improvement in the affected peron's condition.

Eating a wide variety of vegetables, fruits, grains, legumes, nuts, seeds and animal proteins allows us to obtain the broadest possible selection of nutrients. But what is right for your best friend or your partner may not be right for you.

Our 21st century eating and lifestyle habits have narrowed down the range of foods in most people's diets and increased the proportion of simple carbohydrates compared to protein.

A diet high in carbohydrates - especially refined ones - leads to weight gain, elevated cholesterol levels, metabolic syndrome, diabetes and cardiovascular disease and other related problems. It is also the main culprit for fatigue and the all-too-common "afternoon slump" - the feeling that descends on a great number of people about 1-2 hours after eating lunch, when one feels one must have stimulants to get through the rest of the afternoon - sweet foods and caffeine being the oft - but ill-chosen remedy.

There is no "one size fits all" diet. Just as we are all different, the way each of us processes foods can differ greatly.

Finding our your Metabolic Type and fine-tuning your diet accordingly can help with issues such as:

• sleep problems (more about Sleep here)
  
• mood swings (read about Stress here)
  
• fatigue (more)
  
• irritability (more)
  
• Weight gain (more)
• bowel or digestive problems (more here)
  

..and many more. "After all, we are what we eat" !

Working closely together we can identify the problem foods in your diet and devise an eating plan that is appropriate for you. The end result will be an improvement in your general health, reduction of risk factors and more energy.

For a fantastic weight loss regime, check out the UltraLite Weight Management Program

Read about the Principles of Great Health here.

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