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10059 South Roberts Rd
Palos Hills, IL 60465
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How big of a role does nutrition play in our health?
And we all know what happens to our homes when they are built on poor foundations.
You may feel sound now, but your foundation will crumble IF you don’t get a handle on your health now.
Dr. Wright, has been integrating nutrition wellness into his practice for the past 23 years. He is a licensed clinical nutritionist.
Q: What is a Clinical Nutritionist?
A: A Clinical Nutritionist studies the relationship between food and a healthy body. Nutritionists treat and look at the whole body and the underlying causes of illness rather than just treating a symptom
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Exactly what is clinical nutrition and how does it work for people?
Clinical nutrition refers to both the practice of using food to maintain health and the therapeutic use of food to treat illness.
Clinical nutrition provides a means for helping an individual regain their health by identifying imbalances and weaknesses through lab and muscle testing (also known as A/K or Applied Kinesiology.)
Many times, some very simple diet changes can make a tremendous difference.
Additionally, your health can be improved through a multitude of other options such as vitamins, minerals, enzymes, herbs and homeopathic remedies, which can assist in providing you with long-term relief to many ailments or potential ailments.
When undergoing Chiropractic / Acupuncture / Amino Acid Treatment, nutrition plays a huge role.
Injury places a greater demand for the high quality nutrients needed for rebuilding injured tissues, raising energy levels, balancing body chemistry to a sufficient degree for healing.
Without the proper nutrition, your body may be slower to respond to healing or just may not heal at all. You also may suffer reoccurrences due to a sub-par nutritional lifestyle. It’s nutrition that plays a HUGE PART in reaching and maintaining health, along with a positive mental attitude.
I know you’ve heard it before, but you need to read it, to absorb it, to believe it: the food you eat every day sets the stage for:
your mood and outlook for that day
your patience with people
your energy level throughout the day (people who eat correctly, don’t nap 2 – 3 times per day)
how clearly you will think and remember things (short term and long term)
healthy bowel movements, frequent urination and good digestion
Examples: daily flatulence is an indicator your digestion is not working properly. And long term use of “Tums-like antacids” can actually cause more problems by inhibiting your necessary stomach acid production.
The food you eat every days sets the stage for:
your sex drive
hair growth and skin health
your ability to maintain a healthy weight and body fat
the health or ill-health of your mouth / teeth & gums
Example: Bad breath can be an indicator of sluggish digestion.
healthy fertility levels in both men and women
anti-aging and longevity
. . . and the list truly does go on and on and on
Scientific research has shown that numerous medical conditions can be treated as effectively with food and nutritional supplements as with medications
Some of the greatest minds in medicine and research knew this decades ago when they were quoted as saying:
And now for the Greatest Mind of all:
Somehow, somewhere WE TOOK FOOD FOR GRANTED. And it’s not all our fault.
Deceptive marketing plays a huge role in the mass ignorance of the general public on how to choose and eat the right foods.
Somewhere, somehow we WERE CONVINCED that the quantity and CONVENIENCE of food was far more important than the QUALITY of food we put in our body.
Check out this amazing website link on how Nutrition alone played a huge part at an alternative school in Wisconsin. Diet alone had a drastic effect on these troubled kids.
http://www.feingold.org/PF/wisconsin1.html
Q: Where else are we let down?
A: We also put our health in the hands of medical professionals whose true training is in crisis care, not in education of nutrition & food and the impact it has on the human body. (as substantiated by the study below on the Nutritional Training required in U.S. Medical Schools.)
Academic Medicine: September 2010 - Volume 85 - Issue 9 - pp 1537-1542
doi: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e3181eab71b Nutrition Education Nutrition Education in U.S. Medical Schools: Latest Update of a National SurveyAdams, Kelly M. MPH, RD; Kohlmeier, Martin MD; Zeisel, Steven H. MD, PhDABSTRACT Purpose: To quantify the number of required hours of nutrition education at U.S. medical schools and the types of courses in which the instruction was offered, and to compare these results with results from previous surveys.
Method: The authors distributed to all 127 accredited U.S. medical schools (that were matriculating students at the time of this study) a two-page online survey devised by the Nutrition in Medicine Project at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. From August 2008 through July 2009, the authors asked their contacts, most of whom were nutrition educators, to report the nutrition contact hours that were required for their medical students and whether those actual hours of nutrition education occurred in a designated nutrition course, within another course, or during clinical rotations.
Results: Respondents from 109 (86%) of the targeted medical schools completed some part of the survey. Most schools (103/109) required some form of nutrition education. Of the 105 schools answering questions about courses and contact hours, only 26 (25%) required a dedicated nutrition course; in 2004, 32 (30%) of 106 schools did. Overall, medical students received 19.6 contact hours of nutrition instruction during their medical school careers (range: 0–70 hours); the average in 2004 was 22.3 hours. Only 28 (27%) of the 105 schools met the minimum 25 required hours set by the National Academy of Sciences; in 2004, 40 (38%) of 104 schools did so. CONCLUSIONS: The average Medical Doctor receives 19.6 contact hours on Nutrition and the importance of food to their patients’ health.
Still have questions?
Dr. Wright would be glad to personally discuss with you your issue of concern. He is known for his honesty and straight-forward approach. If he can’t assist you, he will refer you out. Dr. Wright works with a wide-range of like-minded physicians and practitioners. Either way, you will be able to finally address your issue at its core, and stop putting band-aids on them.
Call Dr. Wright (708) 598-9144 to discuss your issue
Or e-mail him at paloshealth@aol.com
Somehow, somewhere WE TOOK FOOD FOR GRANTED. And it’s not all our fault.