The purpose of wholistic nutrition is to remove stress from the body and assist in healing. Each individual has different needs based on his or her metabolism and constitution. There is no one size fits all diet for healing and living. Our role as health advisors is to help the patient navigate through a maze of ideas and find the most appropriate diet for his or her healing.

Our philosophy is that nutrition for healing should be a simple process. The concepts we use to help our clients include:

Supplementation – giving the body missing vitamins, nutrients, minerals, and enzymes that it needs to heal.

Cleansing – giving the body rest from processing overrefined foods.

Balancing – choosing between cooked or raw foods, food combinations, and the right ratio of proteins, fats, and carbohydrates to bring the body back to health from extremes of high or low metabolism.

Such concepts are drawn from traditional systems of healing such as Chinese Medicine, Macrobiotics (Japan), and Ayurveda (India). Other ideas we use come from our experience with vegetarianism, herbal food combinations, and raw foods, juicing, cleansing, and fasting.

Whole foods promote health and wellness. The public at large is becoming interested in foods for health, performance, and healing. Many people when eating healthy foods feel they have more energy. The body supplied with whole foods also has more energy to heal. Our experience has shown that this is true.

It should be noted that whole foods can be eaten in the absence of symptoms, disease, and diagnosis. There is still need for care when considering a whole foods diet for healing. Medical conditions should be diagnosed by doctors and patients should be educated in the standards of medical nutrition treatment for diseases (like diabetes) before trying alternative diets.

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Recommended Books

	The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, And Long-term Health by T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell II, Howard Lyman (Preface), John Robbins (Foreword) Dr. Campbell cuts through the haze of misinformation and delivers an insightful message to anyone living with cancer, diabetes, heart disease, obesity and those concerned with the effect of ageing. Dr. Campbell challenges the validity of these low-carb fad diets and issues a startling warning to their followers.
	Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats by Sally Fallon A full-spectrum nutritional cookbook with a startling message–animal fats and cholesterol are vital factors in the human diet, necessary for reproduction and normal growth, proper function of the brain and nervous system, protection from disease and optimum energy levels. Includes information on how to prepare grains, health benefits of bone broths and enzyme-rich lacto-fermented foods.
	The Self-Healing Cookbook: Whole Foods to Balance Body, Mind and Moods by Kristina Turner The Self-Healing Cookbook gives fresh, heartwarming support to anyone aiming to prevent or recover from diet-related moods and health symptoms. A starter shopping list, food-mood charts, self-healer’s workbook, and healing foods glossary are included. Along with a wealth of wisdom on how to eat locally, think globally, cook with the seasons, lose weight naturally and nourish growing kids.
	Healing with Whole Foods: Asian Traditions and Modern NutritionWhole Foods Diet Cookbook: 200 Recipes for Optimal Health by Paul Prichard Used as a reference by students of acupuncture, this is a hefty, truly comprehensive guide to the theory and healing power of Chinese medicine. It’s also a primer on nutrition–including facts about green foods, such as spirulina and blue-green algae, and the “regeneration diets” used by cancer patients and arthritics–along with an inspiring cookbook with more than 300 mostly vegetarian, nutrient-packed recipes. The information on Chinese medicine is useful for helping to diagnose health imbalances, especially nascent illnesses.