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Yes, whole food nutrition belongs in the chiropractic paradigm. Our nutrition has been under attack for the last four generations. Facing more toxicity in the human body than ever before, is it any wonder that previous generations of chiropractors seemed to get better results through adjustments than we do? It’s time to embrace a wellness model which acknowledges that the body’s nutritional levels affect outcomes in chiropractic offices.
The forefathers of chiropractic figured out that when they removed subluxations, and took pressure from the nervous system, miraculous things happened. In those early days there was no such thing as processed foods. The soil was pure. People ate off the land and had to eat their food before it spoiled. The public lived a simple robust lifestyle of hard work and eating real food at every meal.
Unfortunately, the chiropractors practicing today can’t say the same things about our society. Over the last 90 years our lifestyle has degenerated into the least healthiest time in modern history. Even though people are living longer, they’re doing so with multiple chronic diseases. Soil depletion, fast food, toxicity, and unrelenting personal stress has overwhelmed the body’s natural detoxing systems, making natural body balance difficult to achieve.
Even the pillars of straight chiropractic today have conceded that their best adjustments just aren’t holding as long as they used to. It’s not that their skill in delivering care has diminished. It’s just that there is far more interference to healthy living than when DD Palmer was providing care to his patients–when he theorized that trauma, toxins, and auto-suggestion were the causes of vertebral subluxations. Many of today’s patients just don’t have the ability to regenerate themselves as fast as they used to.
“The chief fault of many American diets is that they provide too little of the essential minerals and vitamins. This fault is due in large measure to the fact that refined foods are consumed in such amounts, that intake of minerals and vitamin rich foods are lower than it should be.”
In food and Life: The United States Department of Agriculture Yearbook for 1939
Soil depletion is part of the reason we’re not taking in as many minerals and vitamins, and tops the list of problems with our food supply. In 1992 the Earth Summit Report indicate an average of 73% depletion of the mineral content of soils have occurred around the world. The U.S. topped the list in soil mineral depletion with 85% over the last one hundred years.
So what effect does this soil depletion have on your adjustments and on your patient’s ability to regenerate themselves?
Here’s one example: A University of Florida studied male sperm counts over the last eighty years. In 1929, the average male sperm count in the U.S. was 100 million sperm per ml. By 1973 the sperm count had dropped to 60 million. In 1980 the count had dropped the 20 million. (From Going Back To The Basics Of Human Health Avoiding the Fads, the Trends and the Bold-Faced Lies Mary Frost M.A., Expansive Health Awareness, Inc. 4th Edition P. 50, 2007)
How can you expect your adjustments to hold? And are you looking after your patient’s best interest when when you know they’re often getting little or no nutritional value from the food they eat?
A successful chiropractor in today’s environment should include adjustments, whole food nutrition, and healthy lifestyle counseling of all types to create a complete wellness package for their patients. As nutritional levels affect outcomes in chiropractic offices, this truly is the practice of the future.
Does Nutrition belong within the Chiropractic Paradigm?
The forefathers of chiropractic figured out that when they removed subluxations from the nervous system miraculous things happened. In that time period, there was no such thing as processed foods. The soil was pure. People ate off the land and had to eat their food before it spoiled. The public lived a simple robust lifestyle of hard work and eating real food at every meal.
Unfortunately, the chiropractors practicing today can’t say the same things about our society. Over the last 90 years our lifestyle has degenerated into the unhealthiest time in modern history. Soil depletion, fast food, toxicity and unrelenting personal stress has made it impossible for your nervous system to correct itself or remain in a state of homeostasis for any length of time without many types of outside help.
Even the pillars of straight chiropractic today have conceded that their best adjustments just aren’t holding as long as they used to. It’s not that their skill in delivering care has diminished as much as the patient doesn’t have the reservoir of Innate Intelligence it had when DD Palmer was providing care to his patients. Today’s patients just don’t have the ability to regenerate themselves as fast as they used to.
This brings me to the reason that whole food nutrition needs to be incorporated into every chiropractic practice. This component of health has been under attack for at least 4 generations. “The chief fault of many American diets is that they provide too little of the essential minerals and vitamins. This fault is due in large measure to the fact that refined foods are consumed in such amounts, that intake of minerals and vitamin rich foods are lower than it should be.” In food and Life: The United States Department of Agriculture Yearbook for 1939
How can you expect your adjustments to hold and your patients to know that you’re looking out for their best interest when you know they are getting little or no nutritional value from the food they eat? Soil depletion tops the list of problems with our food supply. In 1992, the Earth Summit Report indicate an average of 73% depletion of the mineral content of soils have occurred around the world. The U.S. topped the list in soil mineral depletion with 85% over the last one hundred years.
So what effect does this soil depletion have on your adjustments and on your patient’s ability to regenerate themselves? A University of Florida studied male sperm counts over the last eighty years. In 1929, the average male sperm count in the U.S. was 100 million sperm per ml. By 1973 the sperm count had dropped to 60 million. In 1980 the count had dropped the 20 million. From Going Back To The Basics Of Human Health Avoiding the Fads, the Trends and the Bold-Faced Lies Mary Frost M.A., Expansive Health Awareness, Inc. 4th Edition P. 50, 2007
This is just one example of how today’s chiropractors are put behind the 8 ball if they don’t use every means at their disposal to rebuild their patients from the nutritional point of view. A successful chiropractor in today’s environment should include adjustments, whole food nutrition and healthy lifestyle counseling of all types to create a complete wellness package for their patients. This truly is the practice of the future.
As the Baby Boomers take control of the marketplace this model of healthcare will come to the forefront. It’s amazing to hear both Democratic and Republican healthcare reformists talk about how we need to get out of the “sickness” model of healthcare and work towards the “prevention” model of healthcare. Today’s chiropractors are poised to become the prevention doctors of the future if we can all embrace and adopt a complete structural, chemical and psychological system of healthy lifestyle modifications. Using whole food nutrition is a key part in that model.
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