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Energy 2020



            Well we survived the holidays and are well into 2020. I hope that your holiday time was restful and got you ready for the new year. We’re looking forward to a great year as we have many great ways to help patients be healthier and work towards getting away from unnecessary medications and medical debt. I’m surprised and grateful that the weather has been fairly nice for January, hopefully the trend continues. We’ve joked about not having a white Christmas but having a white Halloween instead-ha.

            As were into a new month and new year, our topic for the month has changed to looking at Energy. We get our energy from 2 sources in our diet, sugars and fats. Yes the body can run on sugars but the processed sugars that are so rampant during the holidays, are absorbed so quickly the body must do something with them and turns them into fat stored in the layers of the skin or around organs. Good quality fats are a much better energy source and are used more slowly and digested more slowly so the body has better control of how their processed. These good fats have the oil soluble vitamins that come along with them and we all need them, especially during the winter. This includes vitamins A, D , E, and K. The medical folks are constantly talking about a lack of vitamin D 3, but these good fats have all of the D vitamins in them. The biggest problem people have that have been eating a SAD (standard American diet), is that they have problems digesting fats and proteins. We look especially towards this problem in our Nutrition Response Testing technique.

            Another part of getting your body to have good energy is exercise. I’m not talking about having to run to the gym all the time but just good old walking. The article I’ve enclosed looks at the benefits of walking and we talk to our patients about this often. It’s a little hard to walk outside so treadmills are fairly reasonably priced and don’t take up much space in the house, but if you bundle up, you can walk outside even if it’s cold. And start slowly and build up gradually to walking 30 to 45 minutes per day.

            At Natural Health, were hoping you’re off to a great start in the new year and were here to help with any health problems you are yours may have. 

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Get Healthy, Stay Healthy, and Live Well

-Dr. Mark

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