Meehan Chiropractic

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.