A short September health segment from Total Nutrition & Therapeutics (The Villages) promoting Fruits & Veggies More Matters month and urging people to eat the recommended amounts of fruits and vegetables (noting that more than 90% of adults and children fail to do so). Specialists describe their functional/integrative practice, referrals from GI doctors, counseling for disease states (celiac, Crohn's), baseline testing and retesting to show biomarker improvements after dietary changes, and a simple tip: fill half your plate with fruits and vegetables at each meal. Contact information is available via the Proper Portions storylink on yourhometownhealth.com.
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September.
More than 90% of both adults and children (per the video's statement).
September is fruits and Veggies More Matters month. According to their website, more than 90% of both adults and children do not eat the amount of fruits and vegetables recommended by the latest Dietary Guidelines for Americans and the MyPlate Nutrition Guide. The specialists at Total Nutrition and Therapeutics in the villages explain the importance of getting the right balance of nutrients from your food.
I practice functional or integrative medicine, and my goal truly is to pull conventional medicine because there's a time and a place for medications and prescriptions, but holistic care, pulling them in the middle and integrating that for a person. We call ourselves functional or integrative practitioners. I get a lot of referrals from gastrointestinal doctors to help people begin to understand what diets they particularly need to.
Follow for disease states such as celiac.
Crohn's disease, those type of things. And so specialty nutritional counseling is right up our alley. We offer multiple different services that go well beyond just counseling. I think a lot of people just.
Don'T understand what the right foods are, and I think our clinic helps them and guides them to the right foods. If you're eating the wrong foods, your levels are going to be out of whack, out of range. And the thing is, Lori likes to do like a baseline in the beginning. And a lot of patients, they need that visual to see those numbers. And once they see those numbers and realize, oh, my gosh, I definitely need to change. After eating the proper foods and following a plan, we retest them, and when those numbers come down, the patients are amazed. You know, just because they changed what.
They ate, they have the answers, they have the results. But now what do you do with it? They learn how to do those things. They learn how to eat right. They learn how to set goals and prepare for a healthy lifestyle. There's no finish line. It's a lifestyle. So they need to know how to shop for their new changes and just how to deal with it.
In general, when people hang in there and they do what is fundamentally right, eat whole foods, it's not rocket science. It's just getting rid of all the.
Crap that we've read, all the crap.
That we've seen, all the crap that we've heard, and really getting down to.
The basics of what's really, really right.
I love it and I'm passionate about it. And part of the reason I do it, number one, is loyalty. But number two is because I get an opportunity to meet people in the conventional system that are looking for change and don't know where to go get it.
The specialists recommend this easy tip for getting enough fruits and veggies. Make sure they fill up half the plate at every meal. You'll find contact information for total nutrition and therapeutics in the villages under the proper portions storylink icon on our homepage yourhometownhealth.com.
