We help rebuild health and wellness with nutritional supplements!
The doctors at 1st Choice Health & Wellness Center help many people regain their health through nutritional supplements.
Q: Why does 1st Choice Health & Wellness Center educate their patients about Nutritional Supplements?
A: Nutritional Supplements are foods thought to have a beneficial effect on human health. The doctors at 1st Choice Health and Wellness will also discuss the necessary chemicals which are present in common foods (and therefore are available to you in a non-drug form).
Using nutritional supplements to help bodies regain health is certainly not a new concept. Ancient Chinese medicine is one example. Another is the Greek doctor Hippocrates who is quoted as saying, "Let your food be your medicine and let your medicine be your food."
Nutritional supplements are sometimes called functional foods. For example, red wine contains resveratrol, an antioxidant and an anticholesterimic. Broccoli contains sulforaphane, which is a cancer preventative, and clover contains isoflavanoids which are are nutritional compounds shown to improve arterial health in women.
Q: I've heard nutritional supplements referred to as "dietary ingredients." Is this the same thing?
Yes. The Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) of 1994 defined both of the terms "dietary ingredient" and "new dietary ingredient" as components of dietary nutritional supplements. In order for an ingredient of a nutritional supplement to be an approved "dietary ingredient," it must be one or any combination of the following substances: a vitamin, a mineral, an herb or other botanical, an amino acid, a dietary substance for use by man to supplement the diet by increasing the total dietary intake (e.g., enzymes or tissues from organs or glands), or a concentrate, metabolite, constituent or extract.
Q: What diseases can dietary supplements help treat?
Many diseases in humans are thought to be directly or indirectly related to nutrition, These include, but are not limited to, deficiency diseases, caused by a lack of essential nutrients.
Additionally, several diseases are directly or indirectly impacted by dietary habits, and require very close attention to the nutrient content of food.
You can suffer from over nutrition(eating too much proteins/fats/carbohydrates)
This can cause:
Cardiovascular disease (the leading cause of death in the western world); a primary cause is thought to be eating saturated fat and trans fat;
Some cancers;
Diabetes mellitus;
Insulin resistance;
Obesity;
Metabolic syndrome;
Vitamin poisoning from taking too many or the wrong kinds of vitamins;
Iron overload disorder.
You can also eat too little of or the wrong kinds of foods.
This can cause:
Protein-energy malnutrition;
Beriberi, Rickets; Scurvy; Pellagra;
poor immune system function (potentially leading to a wide range of other illnesses);
Night blindness; Dry skin;
Diabetes mellitus or endemic goiter;
Zinc deficiency (causes growth retardation);
Osteoporosis (causes brittle, easily broken bones due to calcium deficiency).