Nutrition and supplements are vital to healthy living. Choosing quality supplements can make a world of difference when it comes to you and your families health.Â
Question: What are the key components of a nutritious diet?
Answer: A nutritious diet is balanced with lean proteins, carbohydrates, and fats. The Mayo Clinic recommends that 45-65% of daily calories come from carbohydrates, 10-35% from protein, and 20-35% from fats.
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Question: How can a healthy diet improve heart health?
Answer: A diet low in fats, cholesterol, and sodium can lower the risk of heart disease. Saturated and trans fats, found in red meats, fried foods, and packaged snacks, increase this risk. A heart-healthy diet includes fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and low-fat dairy, with an aim of four to five servings of fruits and vegetables daily.
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Question: What foods help strengthen bones and teeth?
Answer: Calcium-rich foods, such as low-fat dairy (milk, cheese, yogurt), dark green vegetables (bok choy, broccoli), and fortified products (soy, juices, cereals), strengthen bones and teeth. Adults aged 19-50 should aim for 1,000 milligrams of calcium daily. Vitamin D is essential for calcium absorption, so fortified products with vitamin D are recommended.
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Question: How does a healthy diet affect energy levels?
Answer: A healthy diet improves energy levels by eliminating excess fats, sugars, and refined carbohydrates (like candy and white bread), which helps prevent blood sugar fluctuations. Unprocessed carbs like whole grains, fruits, and vegetables provide steady energy. Eating small, frequent meals and a nutritious breakfast, such as oatmeal with fruit, can also boost energy throughout the day.
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Question: How does nutrition impact brain health?
Answer: Proper nutrition increases blood flow to the brain, protecting brain cells and helping prevent Alzheimer’s disease. A brain-healthy diet avoids fried foods and includes baked, steamed, or grilled foods. Dark fruits and vegetables, such as kale, spinach, and berries, along with nuts like almonds and walnuts, are rich in vitamins like vitamin E, which support brain health.
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Question: How does a healthy diet aid in weight control?
Answer: To maintain weight, you need to consume no more calories than you burn each day. For weight loss, you must consume fewer calories than you burn. Nutrient-dense foods such as fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and lean proteins typically have fewer calories than processed foods, sweets, and fast food. Losing excess weight lowers the risk of obesity-related conditions, including type-2 diabetes and heart disease.
Standard Process Supplements
Proper nutrition plays a vital role in wellness, and that is why nutritional counseling and supplements are an important part of many chiropractic treatment plans. It is also why we are now offering Standard Process supplements to chiropractic patients. These award-winning nutritional supplements are produced according to the strictest quality standards. Standard Process manufacturers a complete range of vitamin and supplement products to meet the nutritional needs of any patient.
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Quality Whole Food Supplements
The philosophy of chiropractic care is based on supporting the body's ability to heal itself. With proper care and nutrition, you will be surprised at your body's ability to recover from even the most severe illness. Chiropractic adjustments remove vertebral subluxations that can impair nerve and muscle function, leading to pain and mobility issues as well as illness. Proper nutrition gives the body the nutrients it needs to heal and function properly, and Standard Process supplements can be an important part of a chiropractic nutrition plan.
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Standard Process supplements have been trusted since 1929 because they are made from whole food nutrients, cooked and processed in such a way as to not compromise their nutritional integrity. These whole food supplements are blended with other plant and animal ingredients to create unique supplements targeted for a range of different health situations.
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We have chosen to offer Standard Process supplements to our patients because these supplements are made according to some of the strictest quality standards in the world. Many supplement manufacturers have only recently begun making their supplements according to the same rigid quality control standards that Standard Process has been implementing since day one.
Standard Process supplements are the result of painstaking work by a team of microbiologists, chemists, and other scientists. Each batch of supplements is tested six times on average, and Standard Process's quality-control team performs an average of 1,100 quality control tests each week. Standard Process produces many of its own whole food ingredients on its own certified organic farms. The animal products used are obtained from USDA-certified American facilities.
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All of this effort produces a supplement that provides nutrients exactly as they are found in nature. Why not just eat foods containing the necessary supplements, you may ask? Many of our patients come to us after years, or even decades, of eating the standard American diet. They are suffering from the cumulative health effects of many years of poor eating. As a result, many patients are suffering from longstanding nutritional deficiencies, musculoskeletal weakness and injury, and other health complications. While simple dietary changes are part of the wellness picture for most patients, they alone are not enough to restore health for many. These patients need the concentrated whole food nutrition found in Standard Process supplements.
Learn more about what Standard Process supplements can do for you.