Let’s learn to take the die out of dieting. Diet and nutritional advice is one of the most common questions that we see in clinical practice. It is apparent that people get continuously misled when it comes to advice to lose weight, restore health and prevent disease. The usual culprit of the misinformation is the media, internet, health professionals and most commonly, your neighbor. Health, wellness, disease prevention and treatment techniques should not be too different. A great example includes weight loss advice. In many instances one is given advice to lose weight at all cost, even sacrificing one’s health to achieve weight loss. Losing weight should not be the objective, it’s restoring healthy food and activity to help heal the body. If you lose weight and forget about the health of the body, you die lighter. The principles of health and healing always work when you focus on how your body is designed to be health...
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