Nutrition For Optimal Health

The art of eating foods for its medicinal value dates back more than 5,000 years. Food and herbs were eaten because of their natural use in healing, relieving, or preventing certain health or medical conditions. Several references have been made on nutrtion in the Bible to document the medicinal properties of food. In fact the use of prescribed pharmaceuticals has been favored in recent years over food and herbs. However, lately the focus has shifted to the "healing power" of foods with emphasis on optimal nutrition.

Natural Health Innovations is able to provide the most in-depth, state-of-the-art nutritional diet program to suit individual nutritional needs that is used by renowned experts throughout the world. “Let food be your medicine”, Hippocrates. Natural Health Innovations assists with a proper nutrition program that combines a holistic with an allopathic approach, a strategy that has historically yielded superior results with emphasis on detoxification and rejuvenation. We are able to provide proven dietary strategies for acute and chronic medical conditions.

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Metabolic Typing: The Key To Improving Metabolism

Metabolic Typing is the science of discovering the fundamental way in which your body produces energy from your food. It is the explanation of why "one person's medicine is another’s poison."

The second principle of Metabolic Typing is that any nutrient can be acidifying or alkalizing, stimulating or inhibiting, depending on your metabolic type. This process varies from person to person.

The benefits of eating according to your metabolic type are not just weight loss. Metabolic Typing is used by healthcare practitioners to help many conditions, including: weight problems, chronic fatigue, allergies, chronic pain, diabetes, heart disease, and rheumatic disease, just to name a few.

Determining individual metabolic type: These variables are analyzed to determine your individual metabolic type:

Oxidative Rate

This is a very important dominant variable. This tells us how quickly or slowly we metabolize (or oxidize) food.

Autonomic Nervous System Dominance

The ANS is the part of the nervous system that controls everything that occurs automatically, from blood pressure and blood flow to breathing and blinking. For instance, you do not tell yourself to breathe or increase your heart rate during excercise. Your body just performs these functions automatically. The extremes of ANS dominance are the Type A personality who is always on the go (sympathetic or adrenaline dominant) versus the Type B personality, laid back person who needs a boost to get them out of bed (parasympathetic or acetyl-choline dominant).

Blood Type

Most people know the importance of blood typing with regards to receiving a blood transfusion. Likewise, foods can cause agglutination because of the presence of lectins on their cell surfaces. Lectins are sugar-binding proteins that agglutinate or clump cells. Foods contain different lectins. Your blood type will help determine what foods may not be beneficial for you because of lectin incompatibility.

Body Type

refers to where you tend to gain weight. Certain hormone systems are considered dominant depending on your Body Type. The four Body Types are classified as gonad, thyroid, adrenal, or pituitary. This is the reason why some people gain weight in the hips, while others are extremely skinny, but have that little pouch around the middle

Sometimes Body Type can be determined just by appearance:

Area of weight Gain Body Type

How many metabolic types are found among people? The number ranges from two to ten types. The most commonly used theory among researchers is that there are three metabolic types: slow, fast, and mixed.

An insight to metabolism: Body build, appearance, and physiological functions

Nos.	Fast Metabolism	Slow Metabolism
1	Broad shoulders, full-chest, and good strength	Pear-shaped, curvy, with weaker upper body or small and very slim
2	Ears are pink or red, darker than the skin of the face	Ears are pale, lighter than the skin of the face
3	Eyes are very moist, even tears appear	Eyes are dry
4	Eyes are often itching, even though there is no cold or allergy	Eyes are rarely itching, if there is cold or allergy
5	Face color is pink, ruddy, flushed	Face color is pale, sallow
6	Face complexion is bright, shiny, radiant	Face complexion is pasty, chalky, dull
7	Nose often is too moist, even tends to run	Nose often is too dry
8	Pupil’s diameter is equal to or smaller than the width of the iris ring around it	Pupil’s diameter is larger than the width of the iris ring around it
9	Fingernails are thin, even weak and brittle, can be easily bent over	Fingernails are thick, strong, and hard
10	Skin, more often in the winter, especially on fingertips and heels, cracks for no reason	Skin on fingertips and heels, even in the winter, never cracks
11	Skin itches often, especially the scalp, arms, or calves	Skin itches rarely, even the scalp, arms, and calves
12	Goosebumps, even on the arms and legs, rarely appear	Goosebumps, especially on the arms and legs, appear easily and often
13	Dandruff on the scalp often forms, especially after eating animal fats	Dandruff on the scalp never forms, even after eating animal fats
14	Weight is usually gained in the upper body	Weight is usually gained in the belly
15	Saliva in the mouth is too much in quantity, with a tendency for drooling	Saliva in the mouth is too little in quantity, often dry mouth
16	Dislikes the heat, does best in cool or cold weather	Often feels cold, does best in warm or hot weather
17	Coughs easily and often, especially soon after eating or at night, even when not sick	Does not cough, unless when sick
18	Strong reaction to insect bites or stings, including swelling, pain, itching, bruising, redness, and takes long time to go away	Weak or mild reaction to insect bites or stings, and goes away quickly
19	Easily and often gags	Rarely or never gags
20	Brief sneezing attacks, especially after eating, not associated with colds or allergies	Almost never sneezes, unless having cold or allergies