Overview: Functional food Therapeutic Lifestyle Change Intervention program is step by step complementary and Integrated Medicine procedure which includes:
Step 1. Find out the cause of disease: for example causes for prostatitis, causes for
constipation.
Step 2.choose the right functional foods recipe per patient’s especial health situation
Step 3. Designed to
provide patients with the support,
knowledge, skills and understanding to enable them to identify and overcome the
different challenges faced in the adoption and maintenance of a healthy diet
and physically active lifestyle.
B.
Functional Foods do have a amazing capability at health improvement.
In the last decade, preventive medicine has undergone a
great advance, especially in developed countries. Research has demonstrated
that nutrition plays a crucial role in the prevention of chronic diseases, as
most of them can be related to diet. Functional food enters the concept of
considering food not only necessary for living but also as a source of mental
and physical well-being, contributing to the prevention and reduction of risk
factors for several diseases or enhancing certain physiological functions. In
reference to the immune system, many studies have pointed out that not only
pre- and probiotics, but also single micronutrients incorporated into
functional foods contribute to an enhancement of immunocompetence. In fact, one
of the authorized claims consists of pointing out the immunomodulator
properties of functional foods. In this article, the effect of some functional
foods and ingredients such as probiotics, selenium and dietary antioxidants
(vitamins A, E and C) on the immune function are reviewed. However, the optimum
intake level and recommended amounts of functional foods have not yet been established.
Thus, in order to remove the controversy surrounding functional food, further
research studies are necessary, both in experimental animals and in humans.
Finally: efforts should be directed towards the ultimate goal, that is, a
'functional diet'.
Refer: European Journal of Clinical Nutrition (2002) 56,
Suppl 3, S29-S33. doi:10.1038/sj.ejcn.1601481
C. lifestyle practices has a more
massive influence to our health:
"A very short list of lifestyle practices has a more
massive influence on our medical destinies than anything else in all of
medicine," says Dr David Katz, director of the Yale University Prevention
Research Center and president of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, in
a telephone interview. "There's almost nothing in all of medicine that has
the vast, consistent, and diverse evidence base."
He remarked that there is no pill, and there never will be
any pill, that can reduce the burden of chronic disease in the way that healthy
lifestyle factors can.
So why don't we use lifestyle factors more?
Refer: http://www.medscape.com/
D. There are many causes may lead to Constipation, having the causes issues solved is the key.
There are many causes can lead to
constipation ( almost the same as heart Disease(refer picture below))
To Constipation, we cannot ignore
it; also, we cannot expect to have it healed in seconds.
Some impatient people want to solve
constipation quickly by just applying a lot of medicine; in the long term, The medicine may make the intestines get used
to intense stimulation and lose the capability to extract stool itself and
resulted in drug dependence; once the medicine is quitted, the constipation problem
will come back. The natural remedy of
Functional Food Lifestyle Changes Intervention
program has become the most appropriate and safest solution for constipation
problem.
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