What is Theraputic Nutrition?

"Let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food."
- Hippocrates, 400 BC

The top ten causes of death, excluding accidents and suicides, can be directly attributed to eating habits. These fatal conditions can all be prevented or treated exclusively with Therapeutic Nutrition, which uses food and structured diet to treat disease and improve or maintain health.

Therapeutic Nutrition is the oldest known form of medicine. Ancient cultures around the world, from the Indians to the Chinese, believed in the healing power of food. These cultures provided the foundation of Western medicine; but unfortunately, this medicinal knowledge has been lost. Today, we no longer take advantage of food to achieve healing and wellness.

The Problem

To be effective, and to truly have clinical value, a therapeutic diet should consider a multitude of factors, such as:

While food is the foundation of health and healing, most physicians no longer have the time, expertise, or resources to design simple therapeutic diets, much less consider these many variables.

The Solution

With the many interrelating and varying parameters that define each patient's biochemical individuality, only a computer can process such extensive information and create the correct diet for a particular individual.

I have been using a very powerful computer program for several years that allows me to create individualized therapeutic diets that I can create in just a few minutes. This Therapeutic Nutrition software allows me to take into account a multitude of health factors and to take advantage of the incredible vastness of the best of current nutritional knowledge. The results with my patients has been outstanding. Therapeutic Nutrition is an essential part of any health program.