nutrition

After the air you breathe and the water you drink the next most significant fundamental of health is the food you eat. The macronutrients (proteins, fats, and carbohydrates) and micronutrients (vitamins and minerals) as well as the enzyme activity of your nutritional practices has a direct link in every aspect of your being whether this includes your physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual body. The most significant focus is always on the foods you eat with a minor focus on supplementation when needed. Instructions of the best quality foods as well as the healthiest of preparation and cooking methods are always included in a health meal plan as well.

Nutritional Needs

At the Oasis Center for Health nutrition is only assessed on an individual basis based on the understanding that we all have our own genetic or functional needs. Each individual processes foods and utilizes nutrients differently due to unique metabolic characteristics. Learning what foods are genetically appropriate for the way your body works can have a powerful impact on the health of body. For example, metabolic typing can help prevent and reverse chronic illness, lose weight naturally, strengthen immunity, slow down the aging process, enhance athletic performance and overcome mood swings and depression.

Eating with Awareness

Understanding your nutritional needs is followed by furthering your own sense of awareness for your nutrition needs based on a system of eating with awareness. This system goes a long way in assessing whether your cravings are true nutritional or emotional based challenges. Eating with awareness teaches you how to use your own intuition to come to deeper understandings for these nutritional desires and cravings. Using our intuition is a lost art in our modern times as the sugars, chemicals, and stimulants in our foods have deadened our palate and our true ability to "taste" our foods. This is one of the challenges that creates the cravings for food that have little or no nutritional value and leads us into states of poor health

Has this Ever Happened to You?

• You want to lose weight so you try your best friend's diet. She lost 35 pounds quickly but you can't seem to shed an ounce.
• Your friend, the vegetarian, thrives on pasta and vegetables and has boundless energy but when you imitate his diet your energy plummets and you can hardly drag yourself out of bed.
• You eat all the best foods, take only the finest of supplements, you exercise and lead a healthy lifestyle; yet you still do not feel well.
• You believe in nutrition but you have given up. It is impossible to make sense of the confusing and contradictory information flooding the market.