Healing with Nutritional Therapy

Recognition that drugstore medications are failing to treat disease and are, in fact, damaging our immune systems has led us back to the basics. We are what we eat (and breathe and touch and think,....). What you've eaten up until now has contributed a great deal to your current state of health. And what you eat from now on can change your life. The most dramatic shifts in health come from careful changes in diet.

Conditions which have been unsuccessfuly treated by conventional medicine, and which have, in fact, worsened from that treatment, are the best candidates for nutritional therapy. For many, many health conditions—including adult onset diabetes, eczema, chronic yeast infections, high blood pressure,

arthritis—simple diet changes can bring relief and cure over a period of time. Sometimes nutritional supplements, or concentrated sources of natural nutrients, are needed to speed up or kick start the healing process.

Nutritional therapy is based on the cell building and healing properties of good food, but it uses concentrated forms of plants and minerals for quicker, more intense healing. Nutritional Therapy begins with a careful analysis of your diet, health history and other lifestyle elements which affect health—stress, age, lack of exercise, overindulgences, exposure to chemicals, medicines, and other toxins. An effective therapy plan shows you how to return to a healthy diet, offers guidance, feedback and support. Therapy involves using nutrient supplements to restore nutritional status, to rebuild your immune system, to regenerate cells.....to return you to health. Nutritional Therapy can add years and vigor to your life.

In this country lack of food is not a problem for most. Diets built on heavily processed, fatty, salty, sugary, nutrient poor foods is a problem. The rashes and viruses and inflammation and organ disorders and high cholesterol levels which are caused by poor diets are then treated with chemical medications which further burden the liver and lymph system. For this reason, detoxification, or cleansing the body of toxins, is an essential key component to nutritional therapy.

Detoxification can and should be gentle and safe. It is wise to ask for the guidance of a nutritionist who is trained in this aspect of health care.

What is a Certified Nutritionist?

The designation of CN or Certified Nutritionist is earned by meeting rigorous standards of performance established and monitored by American Health Science University and the National Institute of Nutritional Education, the certifying authority.

Educational requirements for the Certified Nutritionist designation currently include a degree from an accredited college with college level studies in sciences and six additional college level courses in nutritional studies from the cellular level through practical, clinical application. Certified Nutritionists are trained in counseling and in design of safe weight loss and exercise programs. Supervised clinical practical experience is required.