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"Die young – as late in life as possible."
--Greek proverb

"Health is more than the absence of disease. Health is a state of optimal well-being…a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity."
-- B.R. Edlin

Longevity Principles

Nutrition and Beyond

My services offered as a Licensed Certified Nutritionist and Wellness Consultant are grounded in the following principles:

Biochemical individuality (everyone is unique and has unique nutritional needs).

Whole, naturally grown foods are the best source of optimal nutrition.

There are no miracle nutrients that will cure all ills.

Dietary supplementation may be health promoting when used in the appropriate form, dose and frequency, but is not a substitute for a good diet.

Nutritional well-being comes from the balance between a person’s health promoting diet and lifestyle habits, and nutritionally negating environmental and lifestyle influences.

A preventive approach is the most effective approach. Next to tobacco use, unhealthy diet and activity patterns contribute the most to deaths in the US These are preventable deaths.

Healthy lifestyle behavior is the key to a healthy and long-lived life. When deaths are examined for their actual cause, statistics have shown that approximately HALF of the 2.1 million deaths in the United States each year are due to lifestyle factors that could be prevented by changes in lifestyle behaviors. According to the United States Public Health Service, 7 of the 10 leading causes of death in the United States could be substantially reduced if people would change their behavior.

Health, particularly before the onset of illness, appears to be a behavioral, nutritional, psychological and lifestyle choice issue and not primarily a medical issue.

Health and vitality are important contributors to well being throughout the life span and people need to know what behaviors lead to good health.

The successful treatment of illnesses or the obtainment of preventive goals requires that people understand what to do, how to do it, and why they should do it.

Lifestyle and nutritional enhancement can make a significant impact not only on illness and disease but also on the critical aspects of health and well being. Prevention approaches can amass or access the knowledge base necessary to design systems, programs and interventions that will appropriately and effectively treat nutritional, behavioral and psychological aspects of health conditions.

The split between mind and body is no longer useful in understanding health care and health and well being.

Developing a longevity preventive approach encompasses nutritional, mental and physical health and all aspects of well being.

Longevity preventive care is long–term and should occur in periods of both health and illness.

The care is comprehensive - affecting many levels of health and wellness drawing from a multidisciplinary approach.

The care is personal and has continuity and integration over time and across individual and community resources.

Its emphasis is on prevention, education, consultation, coaching and changing attitudes and behaviors that enable one to relinquish faulty living habits and adopt healthy lifestyle choices.

It includes focus on adherence with medical and preventive health care regimes, reducing complications from surgery and medical conditions, facilitating recover from somatic conditions and the nutritional, mental, emotional and psychological components of physical conditions.

It also includes focus on the bio-psycho-social perspective and focus on client issues of health and illness as well as on environmental and support systems issues, health care provider-client issues and system-provider issues.

It is not in the best interest of promoting health and wellness for the fullest development of people to simply adopt or borrow healthy habits solely from the medical profession.

To achieve a state of optimal health you must move beyond acute or emergency care.

A comprehensive preventive care system draws from worldwide traditional health care systems and from complementary wellness fields such as human development, psychology, nutrition, spirituality, coaching, counseling, religion, and motivational fields.

Wellness goes beyond the curing of an illness or resolution of a condition. Not being sick is an important aspect of health. But health is really beyond that. It is more an optimal state of well being: physically emotionally, mentally, psychologically, and spiritually.

Wellness is multifaceted and multidimensional. Wellness is the result of wholeness and integration.

Health and wellness are obtained by achieving a balanced and harmonious lifestyle and taking responsibility to reduce your health risks and maximize your healthy choices. Wellness achieves a synergistic balance and interplay among all the many and varied aspect of a person and their lifestyle. Wellness is an integrative process that is ever-evolving toward optimal health.

Health is "a condition of the individual that makes possible the highest enjoyment of life, the greatest constructive work, and that shows itself in the best service to the world. Health as freedom from disease is a standard of mediocrity; health as a quality of life is a standard of inspiration and increasing achievement". (Edlin, et.al., 1999)

The knowledge you need to create a sense of control over your health and your life and to create within yourself the biological support for success is available.

You have only one life to live and only one body in which to live it. The quality and length of your life can increase dramatically by being willing to adopt a longevity preventive care approach.

We are not working simply to eradicate a symptom or illness.

• We are working at rebuilding health and wellness.
• We are working to keep functioning at its peak for as long as possible.
• We are working to avoid unnecessary suffering and decline.
• We are working at restructuring living so that it is compatible with the needs of health at all levels.
• We are working to allow our own natural vitality, brilliance, creativity, compassion, and vision to emanate from a well and healthy person now and in the future.
• We are working to save lives.

Will yours be among them?

If we choose to, we all can achieve the goal established for humanity by the ancient Greeks:

"Die young – as late in life as possible."

We are beginning to see a greater focus on prevention and longevity care that emphasizes a multifaceted health and wellness approach. If you are concerned about your or your family or friend’s health and wellness or if you would like to begin a preventive approach now, contact me today to discuss starting your own journey to wellness. There is no charge to explore the possibilities.

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