What is Clinical Nutrition?
Clinical nutrition examines the relationship between diet and health and adjusts diet to remove dietary factors that contribute to disease and add foods that help heal disease.
How Can a Naturopathic Doctor Help with My Diet?
There is no "one size fits all" way of eating, so we
customize our recommendations based on each unique individual. Our
4
years of training in post-graduate nutrition makes us amongst the most
qualified diet and nutrition experts in health care. Our training in
nutrition is un-biased by political interests such as the Canada Food
Guide, the dairy marketing board or the wheat marketing board, based instead on what
is scientifically proven to help balance hormones, lose weight or
maintain a healthy weight and BMI and maintain long term health and
freedom from disease. Diet can either cause or contribute to diseases
like obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, infertility, autoimmune
diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, lupus and vitilligo and skin
disorders like eczema, psoriasis and acne. Likewise correcting the
diet can help your body to reverse these conditions. Special diets may
be recommended, and treatment may include nutritional supplements such
as vitamins, minerals, enzymes, and other nutraceuticals.
We can customize a diet for you based on any number of different
parameters. Maybe you would like to lose weight but also have
deficiencies of iron and vitamin B12. Maybe you have low thyroid
function and need to increase your essential fatty acid intake and
support function of the ovaries. We can take all these and much more into
account when providing you with your unique food list.