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About Nutrition & Lifestyle Counseling
Lifestyle plays a huge role in health and recovery. If you don't change the elements that are playing a part in your illness, recovery will be slow and your results may be disappointing.
For example, if you have a lung condition and nevertheless continue to smoke, you'll need more treatments and yet they will be less effective than if you had quit smoking.
Dealing with stress-related ailments is similar. If you're receiving treatment for an ulcer exacerbated by work-related stress, it would be wise to make some lifestyle/career changes to aid treatment.
Oftentimes even subtle changes can make a huge difference! Adding a brisk, refreshing 15-minute walk during your lunch hour or doing breathing or meditation exercises before bed or after rising in the morning can be all it takes to get the results you want from an acupuncture-centered wellness plan.
In terms of nutrition and diet, a major factor in a country where at least 65 percent of people are overweight, I like to quote from Paul Pitchford's wonderful book Healing with Whole Foods:
"According to a statement from the Surgeon General, two-thirds of all deaths are directly affected by improper diet, and poor eating habits play a large part in the nation's most common killers--coronary heart disease, stroke, atherosclerosis, diabetes, and some cancers.
Holistic practitioners have always seen marked improvements when individuals make appropriate dietary changes. These changes are actually a revival of ancient principles, but only in recent years has this consciousness reached mainstream America, as evidenced by the above government recognition.
What is needed now are not only higher quality foods and better basic diets, but a clearer picture of which of these foods are best for overcoming personal imbalances and for maximizing vitality in each individual. Healing with food is not haphazard. Food acts according to its various therapeutic properties, although its properties are often less specific and its actions less drastic than those of herbs or other medicines.
Food also acts as a foundation medicine. It is sometimes slower to take effect, but more profoundly affects all systems of the body. If diet is used correctly for prevention and treatment, other medicines are required less, if at all."
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