Addiction Recovery & Nutrition:
Adequate and balanced nutrition is commonly overlooked in well-meaning detoxification and recovery programs. This is especially true in programs (low or non-funded) that treat the lower economic status clients [1] While most programs encourage recovering alcoholics to eat and take basic vitamins and supplements, what is lacking is a clear understanding by most mono-therapeutic treatment programs of the depths of physiological changes caused by alcoholism. Furthermore, most programs have little ability to assess whether the patient can adequately absorb nutrients taken orally.
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Food Additives to Avoid:
Food additives are substances intentionally added to food during manufacturing to increase the desirability of the finished product. Additives can alter the color, texture and stability of the food or reduce the spoilage time. There are approximately 2000 different types of additives. The standard American diet includes 3-5 pounds of these additives per year. Additives can be toxic chemicals that can give rise to a number of symptoms. The most common are psychological or neurological such as depression, headaches, mental confusion, mental illness or abnormal nerve reflexes.
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The Importance of Pre & Post Operative Recovery Using Supplementation:
Healing of wounds from either injury or surgical involvement creates an added stress to the body which requires an intensified metabolic demand for nutrients such as vitamins, minerals, and proteins. Wound healing involves an intricate series of interactions that call for adequate blood to be supplied to the site of damage.
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