Nutrition Corner with Dr Hans VanHeule

Nutrition plays such a large part in our life, but we take what we eat so often for granted.

The foods we put in our body is like the fuel we put in a race car; put in bad fuel, you get bad performance from your car.

The body is no different. Put in junk food, and you get junk performance.

However, our bodies are living organisms that can adapt to bad food/fuel - to a point.

 When we are young we can eat hot dogs, and Ding-Dongs, and Ho-Ho’s without a worry, but as we get older, it seems the same foods are now fighting back.

We start getting these little symptoms as gassiness, burping and maybe some occasional heart burn.

Later on these symptoms become more severe: bloating, stomach pain, constant heart burn or ulcers, constipation or loose stools.

We notice we have a harder time getting a good night sleep or sleeping throughout the night and wake up groggy. We don’t rebound as easily from a ‘night out on the town’. We get the occasional headache and our clothes  don’t fit as easily as, and we chalk it up to ‘getting older’.

Getting older just means that we have to be a little more diligent.

How come one person is getting along just great, while the next one has a shopping bag full of prescriptions and a standing appointment with their medical doctor?

Do you have a headache because you have an aspirin deficiency?

Much of this is due to the concept of ‘junk in - junk out’.

And the crazy thing is that our body is constantly giving us signals as to what is happening inside. We just ignore those signals, or don’t know how to understand them.And our current healthcare model isn’t conducive to finding the problem, and it is only going to get worse.

We are just treating symptoms and hoping nothing else will pop up.

Is it just me or do commercials spend more airtime on the disclaimers and side effects than they do on the merits of their drugs?

In a 2010 report from the Department of Human Services they state that ‘infections, surgical mistakes, and other medical harm contributes to the deaths of 180,000 hospital patients a year”. Another 1.4 million are seriously hurt by their hospital care. Note that these numbers only apply to Medicare patients.

The latest data from the U.S. National Poison Data System (2010 report), NO deaths were attributable to vitamin and mineral supplements that year. And, as noted by Orthomolecular Medicine News Service last year, Americans easily take more than 60 billion doses of nutritional supplements every year, and with zero related deaths this is an outstanding safety record.

 

Meet the Doctors

                         

Michael J. Meehan, DC, BCAO

Michael J. Meehan, DC, BCAO earned his chiropractic degree from Life University in Marietta, Georgia. His mentor and the developer of the technique, Dr. Roy W. Sweat, trained him in the Atlas Orthogonal program. He furthered his studies and earned Board Certification in 1995.Dr. Meehan has practiced using the Activator Methods technique since 1992. He is a certified, advanced rated Activator Methods practitioner. His practice is focused on family care with patients of all ages from infants to seniors. Other practice specialties include extremity adjusting, prenatal care and customized nutritional programs and supplementation. Dr. Meehan is a member of the International Chiropractors Association, North Carolina Chiropractic Association and is licensed by the North Carolina Board of Examiners. He is a national board member of the Academy of Upper Cervical Chiropractic Organization. Other civic and community involvement have included Rotary Club, church choir, student mentor and the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce. He also maintains a focus to educate the community about health and chiropractic by sponsoring workshops and speaking engagements. He enjoys his personal time with his wife, Cassie, and their children Patrick, Connor and Megan.


                                          

Hans J. VanHeule, DC

Dr Hans VanHeule graduated in 1992 from National College of Chiropractic in Chicago. Since 1993 he has been in chiropractic practice in the North Carolina mountains where he had 2 clinics, in Boone and in Newland. Dr VanHeule grew up in a chiropractic family where his father and brother are chiropractors as well.Dr VanHeule uses Sacro Occipital technique, a gentle chiropractic technique that looks at the relationship between the sacrum (base of the spine) and the occiput (base of the skull). He also utilizes craniopathy which facilitates the movement and stresses between the bones in the skull to improve the flow of CSF (cerebro spinal fluid) throughout the brain and spinal cord. SOT has been shown to be beneficial in cases of low back pain, neck pain, headaches, migraines, dizziness, TMJ problems, pain or numbness in the arms or legs. Since SOT restores the natural balance in the spine, muscles, nervous system and even the organs, it has been very successful in helping people with different organ problems ranging from high blood pressure to stomach and digestive problems to constipation.SOT and craniopathy has been shown to be very safe and beneficial for infants and older patients alike. Because chiropractic philosophy is geared toward helping the body heal itself by removing the offending problem, whether mechanical, nutritional or even emotional-energetic, there are many conditions, too many to list, where chiropractic can be beneficial to restore good health.Nutrition is also a large part of Dr VanHeule's view of looking at the whole body for total health. Not only does he analyze the body using questionnaires, biomeridian evaluation, saliva and blood tests, but he likes to just sit and talk and listen to his patients concerns and needs. He and the patient devise a working plan that everyone can live with and that optimizes the patient's chances for a healthy lifestyle.Dr VanHeule teaches SOT at the SOTO-USA conferences.He enjoys spending time with his wife and two sons outdoor camping, canoeing and hiking. He is active in scouting and his oldest son is an Eagle scout.

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