NUTRITION

Nutrition – A Key to Health

Staying Healthy with Good Food!

It has become a fact that the diet of mainstream society often provides too much of the wrong things, and too little of the right things to keep our bodies functioning properly.

Eating a well-balanced and comprehensive diet is not only important for weight loss, but also important for keeping your body healthy and properly functioning.

Food is literally the fuel for your body, and our poor dietary habits of fueling the body with toxins leads to a number of problems including:

Increased inflammation in the body.
Reducing the body’s ability to heal itself.
Affecting the brain’s ability to operate optimally.

At Kinetic Health we offer nutritional counseling and support to help you learn what kind of diet is best for you and your lifestyle.

Dr. Brian Abelson

Best-selling author, Dr. Brian Abelson, is the Clinical Director of Kinetic Health, an innovative health care facility that places a special focus on getting people back into an active, pain-free lifestyle.

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Detoxifying your Body

On a daily basis we are inundated with things that introduce toxins into our body, from the food that we consume, to the air we breathe, to the chemicals in our water. In some cases, such as candidiasis or obesity, our body even creates its own toxins.

Detoxification is a process that occurs in our body naturally, but if there is an excess of toxins, our body does not have the capacity to process and dispose of all of the toxins at the rate at which it was ingested.

The natural process of eliminating toxins is a two-step process that takes place mostly in the liver. In the first phase, enzymes break down the toxins into less complex forms called “intermediate compounds”. After this first phase some toxins can be eliminated, but others need to be broken down further.

The stubborn toxins that were not eliminated in the first phase are then passed along one of six detoxification pathways to break down into less complex forms, and are finally attached to a certain type of protein which guides the toxins out of the body in the form of urine or feces.

During the natural process of detoxification, your body produces extremely potent toxins which are normally bound and eliminated. However, if your liver is not functioning to its full potential (due to stress, illness, or other factors), these toxins continue to remain in your body, and can seriously affect your ability to heal yourself.

At Kinetic Health we provide information, counseling, and support for those who want to perform a detoxifying liver cleanse to help the body eliminate a build-up of toxins.

Reducing Inflammation

Inflammation is our body’s defensive reaction to injury or illness (such as when you catch a flu). It is a protective measure designed to provide increased sustenance and immunity to the areas of our body that are vulnerable.

Although a well-intentioned action, inflammation can also be harmful to the body. Inflammation is now thought to play a role in pathological conditions ranging from anemia and allergy, to coronary heart disease, diabetes, dementia, psoriasis, and even stroke. From inflamed gums that may contribute to cardiovascular disease, to playing a crucial role in fanning the flames of cancer cell growth, inflammation has been implicated in many more diseases than was previously believed.

Certain dietary habits encourage inflammation. In our society we consume large amounts of omega-6 fatty acids which are found in foods such as margarine, vegetable shortening, and all partially hydrogenated vegetable oils. Omega 6- fatty acids promote inflammation.

Poor quality carbohydrates also encourage inflammation because the combination of the sugars found in these foods combined with proteins create inflammatory by-products called Advanced Glycation End Products (AGEs). Some foods that produce large amounts of AGEs are:

Bread
White potatoes
Crackers
Chips and other snack foods
Pastries
Sweetened drinks
Refined and processed foods
Fast foods and other foods made with high fructose corn syrup

Although we are trained to believe that all protein is good, certain proteins contain more inflammatory fats than others. Protein sources such as meats and poultry contain more inflammatory fats than vegetable protein sources.

While we consume many of the foods that encourage inflammation, we also consume too little of the foods that decrease inflammation. Foods containing Omega-3 fatty acids such as oily fish, walnuts, flax, and hemp provide the body with nutrients that have an anti-inflammatory affect.

Eating good quality carbohydrates that keep your blood sugar low and stable will help to keep the production of AGEs low. These foods include:

Whole grains
Beans
Winter squashes and other vegetables
Temperate fruits such as berries, cherries, apples, and pears instead of tropical fruits such as bananas, pineapple, mango, and papaya

Quality protein sources include the vegetable proteins found in whole grains, seeds, and nuts, as well as the proteins found in fish. With fish, it is even better to eat the oily fishes that also contain good amounts of Omega-3 fatty acids, such as wild Alaskan salmon, sardines, herring, and black cod.

Unfortunately in the medical world, chronic inflammation is not often considered as a major relation to illness, but there is in fact significant evidence that addressing chronic inflammation will alleviate and even eliminate several diseases.

Preventing Osteoporosis

Our skeletons are literally and figuratively the backbone of our bodies.

A vulnerable skeletal system can greatly affect the health of the other parts of our body and also our quality of life.

While osteoporosis is an illness that usually affects people in their later years, preventing osteoporosis by building and maintaining optimal bone mass is something that we can address from adolescence.

To maintain optimal bone health, it is important to start by growing healthy bones since the more bone mass you have in your youth, the better prepared you are against losing bone mass as you age.

Nurturing healthy habits from youth includes avoiding smoking, which seriously affects the development of bone mass. In addition, good nutrition is key to developing healthy bones; like all things that grow, bones also need enough good food and the right nutrients to reach their maximum health.

When we think of what we usually hear about having healthy bones, we immediately think of drinking milk, or taking another similar conventional sources of calcium. This is because we are taught that healthy bones needs lots of calcium, when in fact they need a specific type of calcium. While conventional calcium sources do slow down the loss of bone mass, they do not stop or reverse the process of loss of bone mass.

Our bones need calcium with a combination of other minerals in order to actually stop or reverse bone deterioration. This perfect combination can be found in the supplement Ossein microcrystalline hydroxyapatitie complex (MCHC).

In addition to calcium, the body needs enough vitamin D, Magnesium,

Menatetrenone, and Strontium to maintain optimal bone health. These nutrients can be taken in the form of supplements.

There are also additions that you can make to your everyday diet that will help to maintain good bone health. Eating a diet with enough alkaline ash-rich fruits and vegetables helps to keep the body from developing acidosis. If acidosis occurs, calcium levels are depleted causing weakening of the bones.

In addition to proper nutrition and healthy lifestyle habits, doing weight-bearing exercises also helps to build and maintain bone

Weight Loss with Kinetic Health

The World Health Organization provides statistics that show that 50% of the population in North America is overweight. Carrying excessive weight on the body leads to individuals being at high risk for premature death and serious chronic conditions including heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, cancer, sleep apnea, and arthritis.

If you would like to become more fit and lose excess fat, we recommend embracing sustainable healthy eating habits, as opposed to a temporary “crash-diet”.

These temporary fixes are usually unhealthy for the body, and if followed for long periods of time, can cause nutritional deficiencies, because generally they are structured by eliminating a specific type of food.

A well balanced diet is essential to healthy nutrition, and should include a variety of foods that provide quality proteins, complex carbohydrates, and essential fatty acids. If you’ve tried fad-diets before you may have found that you didn’t enjoy the foods you were “allowed” to eat. Eating should be an enjoyable activity and it is important to enjoy the foods you eat so that you can sustain your eating habits.

Eating the right foods is only half of being fit. Making long-term changes to your body includes increasing your metabolism through exercise. Trying quick weight loss techniques usually means that your body is losing more muscle that fat, which in turn lowers your metabolism. Building muscle in your body through exercise raises your body’s resting metabolic rate (RMR) which is the rate at which your body burns calories at rest.

In addition to the dietary suggestions we give you, we will also recommend nutritional supplements if required to support your fat loss program to help you gain muscle, decrease fatigue, and replace essential nutrients.

Expect & Receive The Best Possible Care

At Kinetic Health, we are proud of our high success rate in the treatment of musculoskeletal conditions and are even happier about the high level of patient satisfaction that we regularly achieve.

Our comprehensive examination processes, ability to integrate multiple and effective treatment modalities, and our customized treatment and exercise plans ensure that every patient receives a high quality of care that addresses their specific needs.

We have great working relationships with the medical community across the city. You can expect your medical practitioner to receive clear summations of our examination findings with follow-up letters about our treatment results. This collaboration ensures your needs are met effectively.