Diet in Naturopathy

Diet: Naturopathic Measures to Improve Wellbeing and Health.

(11.07.2010) There are a lot of variations in the field of dieting, and it is often said that the diet that is being promoted is the best and most effective of them all. There is always much emphasis on losing body weight. But is that healthy from a naturopathic point of view?

An important question before a diet should be what are the reasons for your own overweight. In natural medicine, a diet means good health and is not just an aesthetic measure. Because simply losing kilos often does not eliminate the cause and can quickly lead to the kilos returning after the diet.

A fundamental argument can help to give those affected an orientation in relation to the measures. Because the overweight can be caused by intake to large portions of food, by too much sweets, too little exercise or a variety of other reasons. Often there is behind it behind another problem, which can also be of a psychological nature.

Diet and diet

Naturopathy has always held the simple view that a balanced diet with lots of fresh and as natural as possible fruit and vegetables and lots of exercise is basically a good choice for more health. Nowadays, however, there are many people who have allergies or food intolerances and therefore can not eat certain foods. Of course this has to be taken into account. And one-sided diets can overtax the body or bring it into questionable metabolic situations.

This should be done in advance a thorough analysis of the organism to meet the individual character of each metabolism. The quite novel metabolic screen program of the naturopathic laboratory Biovis from Limburg is a good way to individually change the metabolism. But caution is advised when weight loss is reduced only to attainable levels of certain substances in the body and is based on an ideal image that should be the same for all people.

The traditional healing Ayurveda, for example, divides the people into three different types, but there are no unique, but always mixed types. Here are the nutrition tips quite individual, based on the types and not general nature. And this system has been around for some 3,000 years and has survived.

In osteopathy, a form of manual treatment that is increasingly being included in the field of natural medicine, it is often stated that if you lose weight you do not breathe properly. It can be a great way to help support the lymphatic system, breathing, and general outflow in people who take weight-loss measures and get stuck. (Thorsten Fischer, Naturopath Osteopathy)

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