NUTRITIONAL COUNSELING
At Fox Valley Health and Rehabilitation we utilize nutrition to restore health to your body. If you have been to nutritionists or dieticians in the past, you probably had lengthy discussions about low fat diets and counting calories.
You probably did not talk about how 100 calories of broccoli will have a very different impact on your weight and health than 100 calories of chocolate cake! Unfortunately, the field of nutrition is riddled with falsehoods and partial truths. It can become confusing and frustrating trying to sift through all of the books, television shows and diet fads in an effort to find the buried truths of proper nutrition.
- Do I need Omega-3 fatty acids?
- Should I eat saturated fats?
- Do I have a food allergy? Can gluten (wheat, barley and rye) cause low thyroid function?
- Will diet improve my autoimmune disease? Can diet affect my hormone levels?
- Why is the level of inflammation in your body a better indicator of future heart disease than cholesterol levels?
- How can decreased response to blood sugar lead to dementia?
These are the kinds of issues and questions we address with our nutrition programs.
Not sure which dietary advice to follow?
Odds are, you have not been able to achieve your health and wellness goals using the nutrition tools you possess.
Not so long ago, the public was advised to not eat butter and instead consume margarine...this caused heart disease to skyrocket! Then we were told that eggs would dramatically raise cholesterol...now they are back on the "acceptable" list. Then we ate low-fat, high-carbohydrate and then to no carbohydrates and only fat and protein...these diet plans led to health problems.
In spite of all the diet books and new drugs, heart disease, diabetes, obesity, cancer and all other forms of morbid disease are still on the rise! Our children are the first generation in recent history with a projected life expectancy shorter than that of their parents! Our children are expected to die at a younger age than we will! There is not a synthetic food product or new drug that is going to turn health around, but good nutrition will.
Health will not be created in a lab or found in a pill!
The following are just a few of the conditions successfully treated with diet modification:
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Most chronic health conditions do respond favorably to improved diet and high quality nutritional supplements.
Dr. Sexton is a Board Certified Clinical Nutritionist with over 10 years of
diet-modification experience for the treatment of chronic disease.
Are you ready to start feeling better?
We are here to help you now.
Contact our office (630) 882-8909 to set up an appointment today.