The whole
is more than the sum of its parts. This principle is a core truth
that we hold central at Nutrition Clinic. It is the basis upon which
we view the human body with its capacity for physical, emotional,
mental and spiritual expression. Applied clinical nutrition refers
to the clinical application of this principle with patients in their
quest for the maintenance or restoration of health.
Therefore, in the application of this principle, we utilize food
for special dietary use as distinguished from general uses of food,
as follows:
- Uses
for supplying particular
dietary needs which exist by reason of a physical, physiological,
pathological or other condition, including but not limited to
the conditions of diseases, convalescence, pregnancy, lactation,
allergic hypersensitivity to food, underweight, and overweight;
- Uses for supplying particular
dietary needs which exist by reason of age, including but not
limited to the ages of infancy and childhood;
- Uses for supplementing
or fortifying the ordinary or usual diet with any vitamin or mineral,
or other dietary property. Any such particular use of a food is
a special dietary use, regardless of whether such food also purports
to be or is represented for general use.1
1Title 21
Code of Federal Regulation, 1985 edition, section 105.3 subsection
(a)(1).
This clearly distinguishes food uses from the term
"drug" which is
defined by federal law to indicate articles intended for use in
the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease
in man or animals.
Nutrition Clinic believes in proper eating of real food as created
by Mother Nature and, in this context, uses the term "natural."
Natural means produced by growing processes inherent in the un-manipulated,
original seed allowed its full measure of growth to maturity. Fundamental
alterations of the structure and significant biochemical changes
are excluded from our definition of food.
Whole
Food Supplements and Herbs
Whole food, organically grown
in a nutrient-rich soil as Mother Nature intended, is what our bodies
are designed to use to heal and maintain themselves. With today's
American diet often deficient in whole food nutrients, whole food
supplements can play a part in providing for the body what overly
processed, synthetically-made foods cannot.
For optimum results, Nutrition
Clinic primarily uses a professional line of supplements from Standard
Process, Inc. Begun in 1929, Standard Process, Inc., maintains over
1000 acres of organic farmland in the rich glacial soils of Wisconsin.
Their supplements are carefully prepared with low temperature processing
so as to be balanced, potent, and readily absorbable. In addition,
we have chosen a professional line of herbs from MediHerb that meets
the same standard of excellence.
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