While most people consider the term diet something that relates only to calories and weight loss, our St. Petersburg chiropractor offers nutritional counseling to help our patients expand their view of what diet really means. Not only does it concern foods that promote a healthy weight, a truly great diet supports excellent health!

- The first tip involves a change in mindset. Rather than thinking about solely counting calories, instead consider the nutritional value of the food you are eating. There are many low-calorie foods that promote weight loss, but do they also provide your body with the essential nutrients it craves?

- Eating whole foods rather than highly processed foods gives you a real nutritional boost. There is an incredible difference between eating a fresh orange and drinking an orange flavored drink. One provides an abundance of nutrients, whereas the other is primarily artificially colored sugar water. It’s obvious which choice benefits your body more.

- After years of eating fast foods and highly processed foods, your body is full of undesirable wastes and toxins and needs a good detox. Our nutritional counseling guides you through the gentle detox process that helps your body rid itself of the accumulated toxins. Once you have cleansed your system, we show you how to easily maintain a healthy, optimally functioning digestive system.

- Weight loss comes naturally when you are eating the right foods and participating in routine exercise. A diet of junk food actually deprives your body of nutrients, which sets up natural cravings for more food in order to try to satisfy your body’s need for nutrition. When you eat healthy, you get the essential vitamins, minerals and nutrients your body needs and the cravings fade away.

- What you drink is as important as what you eat. Recent research is confirming the harmful effects of excessive consumption of sugary drinks. Water has always proven beneficial to health by hydrating the body and quenching thirst.

Whether you are suffering from a painful injury or illness, our St. Petersburg chiropractor uses a comprehensive approach of getting to the root of your health problem. In addition to nutritional counseling, we use gentle, non-invasive techniques of physical therapy, acupressure and massage therapy to promote healing and wellness.

How has nutritional counseling helped you improve your health?