Dr. Patryce Smith – Building Health

Doctors of the Future – Here Now

“The doctor of the future will treat (her) his patients with proper diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.” Thomas A. Edison revealed this long ago as the best way for healing and health promotion.

Food IS Medicine

By making a choice to eat organic and seasonal vegetables, fruits, and leafy greens you are assisting in building health, in cell repair and renewal as these foods replenish one’s mind, body, spirit, and environment.

Medicine that has healthy side effects!

Try introducing yourself to a new vegetable or fruit this spring. There will be many varieties to choose from in your grocery store or local farmers’ market.

Eating seasonally and consuming more organic foods is important on your healing journey; it is also important to not introduce more chemicals and toxins into your digestive system. “Variety is the spice of life”.

Dr. Elson M. Haas also suggests in his book, Staying Healthy with Nutrition, The Complete Guide to Diet and Nutritional Medicine, that one look to food as a way to rebuild health.

Be sure when grocery shopping to find the following and include them for your healthy lifestyle choices.

Produce: fresh and organic is best at least 5 servings of vegetables and fruits.

Starches: Carrots, hard squashes, potatoes, beets, and whole grains should be a minimum of 4 servings a day.

Calcium: Include sesame seeds, nuts, and green leafy vegetables. If tolerated some dairy can be included, especially non-sugared yogurts and Kefir products.

Proteins: cooked legumes, fish, sprouted legumes or seeds, eggs, nuts, poultry, lamb, beef or pork (less or no meats) some leafy greens for 2 to 3 servings.

Oils: olive, safflower, flax-seed, sunflower, and canola are the best choices. To add more Vitamin E and some essential fatty acids use some seed and nut oils.

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