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NUTRITIONAL CONSULTATION
Along with exercise, proper rest,
good mental attitude and a healthy nervous system, DIET is a major
component of health and wellness (see our “Wellness” page). While it is
universally agreed a good diet is linked with health, not many of us act
on that knowledge and many are unclear what foods we should eat.
The reality is that our environment
is polluted and our food chain is depleted due to the fact that the
fruits and vegetables we consume are rarely grown organically. In an
effort to “fill in the cracks” of our nutrition, many of us take
vitamins that are synthetic and/or “high-potency”. Even these
substances make changes in our bodies that over time leave us depleted
leading to other health problems. While synthetic and high-potency
vitamins appear to be good for us, our bodies were designed to get our
nutrition through food when it is in the form of whole food complexes.
As an example, the FDA requires that marketed vitamin C contains
ascorbic acid. While this is a component of vitamin C it only
represents one of the many known components in the vitamin C complex
found in organically grown fruits and vegetables. Too often one
component of a whole food complex is extracted and concentrated then
offered into our bodies in a ratio the Mother Nature never intended. In
this concentration minerals can be leeched out of other tissues and
result in other deficiencies.
In our Los Alamitos office, we offer
nutritional deficiency screenings to determine if a patient shows signs
of nutritional deficiency. If so, we may recommend a course of
organically grown, whole food complexes to address these deficiencies.
This is followed by re-testing to assess if your body is functioning
better.
With this approach we find our patients respond better,
faster and achieve better overall health than patients with deficiencies
that only receive chiropractic care. If you suspect you have
nutritional deficiencies and would like to be tested independent from
our chiropractic exam, you are welcome to call our office to schedule
and appointment
Contact :McMullin & Stark
located in Los Alamitos, CA for nutrition screenings and treatment. |