The basic building blocks for healthy eating provide good general guidelines, but don’t provide for individual differences in biochemistry. Following these building blocks is essential for good nutrition, but advice from a nutrition healthcare provider is also recommended since we are all biochemically unique. Individuals vary tremendously in what is the “right diet.” Only a doctor with advanced training in nutrition has access to the specialized procedures and tests to determine the “right diet” for you. The doctor with a Diplomate in Clinical Nutrition is a specialist in developing custom nutritional programs and meeting your individual biochemical requirements.

How Do You Develop A Nutritional Plan?
There are two, and sometimes three, steps necessary to develop a custom nutritional health plan. The first step begins with a complete history and a specialized physical exam which uses techniques and tests to help us highlight any nutritional imbalances. The second step consists of in-office laboratory tests. These in-office tests use easily-obtainable samples, such as saliva or urine, and provide instant answers to some of our nutritional questions.

Are Herbs Safe for Me?
here is not a single herb available to you today which even approaches the level of damage and danger to your health presented by most over-the-counter medications. Most of them are even safer than aspirin. All of the herbs used by Dr. Jenkins have hundreds to thousands of years of clinical experience behind them. Proper dosages are well-known, any possible side effects have been investigated, and the health effects of these herbs have been documented. In addition, most of the herbs prescribed by Dr. Jenkins have also been researched by modern scientists, so that their chemical makeup is understood and their active ingredients known.

Americans are becoming the “fattest” people on hearth, despite the proliferation of diet books, diet pills, diet surgeries and other medical scams. The problem is that we are sedentary, consume large amounts of saturated fats, and eat processed foods. This has led to ever-increasing rates of obesity and the world of health problems which obesity brings with it hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. It is time to get back to the basics of nutrition, and learn what is good nutrition for you as an individual — not what some diet book or mass-marketed program tells you.

Good Nutrition
There are hundreds, if not, thousands (or more), nutritional plans available. Everyone is aware of the obesity epidemic in the United States and other countries around the world, and these diet and exercise programs have popped up partly to help that problem, and partly to make money. Good nutrition is not as complicated as this would lead a person to believe. The truth is that healthy nutrition is very simple