Food Is Medicine - and here’s why

The foods we eat help determine whether or not we will become ill, or remain healthy into older age, and we are all going to age! So what do you eat on a regular basis? How do you feel when you wake up in the morning?

Vegetables, fruit, meat, etc... contain vital nutrition like antioxidants, phytonutrients, vitamins, minerals, fatty acids/protiens, fiber and much more. We need these things for fuel and energy. If you are regularly putting dead, food-like substances into your digestive tract, eventually your body will no longer have the energy it needs to run the way nature intended.

Sadly the Standard American Diet (SAD) has been skewed with mis-information and reccomendations to eat food mutations like highly processed high glycemic carbohydrates and fats that clog up the arterial byways of the human system and lead to inevitable disease and pre-mature aging.

Those industrial, genetically modified “grains” are too close to the bottom of the pyramid (meaning: eat lots of this!). The body’s need for carbohydrates can be met with vegetables and fruits and even with protein, but far too many people are eating so much of this cheap, poor source of fuel (in the form of processed cereal grains with added sugars, pasta, tons of bread, muffins, crackers, chips etc..) that obesity, heart disease and diabetes have become an epidemic.

Nutrient deficiencies and toxicity from a poor diet and toxic over load of organs are linked to nearly all modern health conditions. John Hopkins University reports that about 80 percent of cancer patients are malnourished, and that treatments used to battle cancer (like chemotherapy) only increase the body’s need for nutrition and weaken it’s ability to heal. Many of todays’ chronic health conditions (like diabetes and heart disease) are illnesses that are highly influenced by diet and lifestyle factors — and the same can be said for allergies, autoimmune disorders like arthritis, thyroid disorders and many more.

So, clean up your diet and watch your health return. Reach out to me for help if you don’t know where to begin! Your doctor most likely cannot and will not help you with this. Nutrition and Lifestyle medicine is not what most doctors are trained to do. (Unless they have continued to learn and grow, and unless they have attended the Institute of Functional Medicine) https://www.functionalmedicine.org.

To Your Health!

Mare Tomaski, Certified Functional Medicine Health Coach