The Importance of Proper Nutrition
If your body is getting essential nutrients including carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins and minerals, it will help your body function, which includes digesting, absorbing, metabolizing and excreting which leads to homeostasis.
Bad eating habits that include diets high in sugar and fats, may lead to fatigue and possible diseases like diabetes, heart disease and cancers. Nutrition goes along with the chiropractic philosophy – treating the whole person by helping the body to naturally heal.

Chiropractic and Nutrition
Many chiropractors believe that proper nutrition is an essential part of preventive health care along with exercise, rest and spinal adjustments.

There is a natural fit between chiropractic and nutrition. Chiropractic assists in healing the body naturally. When you are eating natural foods, it helps the body with the ability to heal itself.

“Nutrition can directly impact subluxations from the standpoint that improper nutrition can affect fluid levels on a cellular level which affects nerve transmissions. Proper nutrition may help patients hold an adjustment longer,” explains Caro.

Integrative Approach
Many patients are looking to chiropractors who are helping them manage specific health problems through an integrative approach that encompasses nutrition. Integrative health care focuses on how biochemical individuality, metabolic balance, ecological context, genetic predisposition, lifestyle patterns and other factors have the potential to strongly influence human physiology and the push pull dynamics of health and disease as defined by Great Smokies Diagnostic Laboratories.