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The Nutrition Tool provides guidelines to achieve balance in your nutritional intake from food based on your body type and lifestyle.  We will cover sugar, carbohydrates, salt, protein, and fat.  We will also discuss weight loss and gain.  The tool will show you how to achieve a reasonable balance in these areas, without sacrificing the majority of foods you enjoy right now.  You will be able to create shopping lists, menus, and snack ideas that will almost immediately give you more energy and boost your immune system.  You will learn about other benefits, such as lowering inflammation in the body.  Your sleep patterns, sex drive, memory, energy levels, and disease control all are directly related to your food and supplement intake.

 

This tool will be your guide in taking the right amounts of vitamins, anti-oxidants, amino acids, herbs and other supplements based on your nutritional intake from food, your body type, and lifestyle.  A program will be customized for you, and we offer a high quality line of products that can be sent to you on a regular basis.  We will guide you in an augmenting your diet with protein and soy supplements, which have been proven to decrease the onset of problems such as osteoporosis, cancer, and heart disease.  It will also dispel the myths and the benefits of herbs.  We will teach you how to eliminate free radicals and carcinogens from your systems.  In the winter months your body has different needs that in the summer months.  Once again, referring to the tool for a few times throughout the years will allow you to achieve optimum balance.  Our research shows that the FDA recommended dosages are just a starting point for vitamin, herb, and supplement therapy, and if managed properly, these therapies can be effective in staying healthy and disease free.

 

It seems so simple to say that exercise is beneficial to a healthier life, and will probably help us live longer.  However, exercise is such a large topic, with so many schools of thought, that we needed to find the balance between good exercise and potentially harmful exercise.  You can seriously damage your body by exercising the wrong way.

 

We have stilled the benefits of exercise into three categories, useable in everyday life.  Of course, we all have different needs when it comes to exercise, but since we know your body type, and have different needs when it comes to exercise, but since we know your body type, and desired lifestyle, it’s not difficult to design an exercise plan that will work for you.  The Exercise Tool will guide you through that last step, and you then can start your personal plan.  When it comes to exercise, the research shows that sometimes “less is more”.  Too much, and we put undo stress on your bodies, not enough, and we become vulnerable to injury and disease.

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Tool Book

Michael Barasch Proposes Internet Health Maintenance Site for Integrative MedicinePDFPrintE-mail
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Tuesday, 14 July 2009 03:40

The Optional Living Club provides personalized lifestyle plans and heath coaching in order to live a longer and healthier life. The Optimal Living Experience, which covers every aspect of health and lifestyle, is offered online, and in spas across the country.  You can join online or in person at one of many participating spas and wellness centers across the country.

 

Our team of doctors, nutritionists, and researchers have taken the best health research available and distilled it into a usable format.  The result is the “Toolbook for a Longer and Healthier Life”, which is customized specifically for for your lifestyle and goals.

 

The program is not only designed to provide you with information, but also keep track of your progress. The tools you receive will cover every aspect of a healthy life, including:

 

  • Nutrition
  • Exercise
  • Conventional Medical Therapies
  • Alternative Medical Therapies
  • Mental Well Being
  • Vitamin and Herb Therapy
  • Optimal Sleep
  • Sexual Behavior
  • Allergies
  • Choosing Doctors and Hospitals
    Last Updated on Tuesday, 14 July 2009 05:34
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    Integrative Medicine

    Integrative Medicine (IM) is healing-oriented and takes into account the whole person: body, mind, spirit, and community as well as all aspects of lifestyle. An integrative medicine practitioner uses all appropriate therapies, both conventional and alternative, to facilitate the body’s innate healing response. IM emphasizes the therapeutic relationship between practitioner and patient. Integrative medicine neither rejects conventional medicine nor accepts alternative medicine therapies uncritically.

    The field of integrative medicine was established and popularized by Andrew Weil, founder and director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona. As the field of integrative medicine continues to grow, leading academic institutions in IM across the US (see the members list of the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine) are conducting scientific studies and research, clinical care and educational programs that focus on teaching medical professionals to promote health and wellness, rather than just treating disease. There are now 42 academic medical centers that offer integrative medicine programs, including the Mayo ClinicHarvard Medical School and GeorgetownDuke and ColumbiaUniversities.

    [edit]Defining principles of integrative medicine

    • Patient and practitioner are partners in the healing process.
    • All factors that influence health, wellness, and disease are taken into consideration, including mind, spirit, and community, as well as the body.
    • Appropriate use of both conventional and alternative methods facilitates the body's innate healing response.
    • Effective interventions that are natural and less invasive should be used whenever possible.
    • Integrative medicine neither rejects conventional medicine nor accepts alternative therapies uncritically.
    • Good medicine is based in good science. It is inquiry-driven and open to new paradigms.
    • Alongside the concept of treatment, the broader concepts of health promotion and the prevention of illness are paramount.
    • Practitioners of integrative medicine should exemplify its principles and commit themselves to self-exploration and self-development.

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