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FOOD AS MEDICINE
Oriental Nutritional Therapy

"The body can heal itself only if you feed it what it needs, not just what is available."

Traditional Nutritional Therapy (‘Food As Medicine’) uses the principles of Chinese medical theory and evaluates individual foods by the way they react within the body. Foods, like herbs, have been categorized by Chinese Medicine doctors over thousands of years. Each food has its own particular taste or tastes, and will affect particular organs in the body. Each food also has a temperature which affects particular organs and the body's temperature balance as a whole. The unique combination of tastes and temperature gives each food specific therapeutic properties. Oriental nutrition uses specific foods as natural supplements to daily food intake, and a "therapeutic menu" to help you feel better, remedy disease, and strengthen, rebuild and rebalance the body.

Food therapy can be divided into:
1) health preservation and
2) remedial dietary therapy for illness or overweight conditions.
Healing food and drink (including the so-called "superfoods") has the efficiency of medicine, and can be used to:

prevent illness

restore a diseased condition to health

be in harmony with the seasons

lose unwanted weight

build up fitness

prolong one's life.

Healing with Oriental nutrition involves not only selecting nutritionally healthy cooking, but also preparing a highly individualized plan made from herbs, foods and condiments under the guidance of a food plan based on traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Foods can also be used the way herbs are used, such as pears for certain lung disorders.

In order to get the most out of acupuncture or herbal medicine, it is important to support your treatment with proper diet and lifestyle. Even if herbs are taken on occasion, food is eaten every day, three or more times per day. Oriental nutrition helps you choose the right foods for your constitution, and find out by examining your eating habits, cravings, body type and lifestyle how to adjust your eating habits to help promote better health.

Oriental nutrition consultations, with or without acupuncture, are available by appointment.

Gardner Singleton has an educational background in Western nutritional pharmacology and advanced training in Chinese nutrition, with a particular emphasis on health-enhancing nutrition for chronic ailments and diseases.

To make an appointment for your first visit, or for more information please contact:

Gardner Singleton, AMT, Dipl.Ac., Dipl.C.H.
Nationally Certified Diplomate of Oriental Medicine Acupuncture/Herbal Medicine (NCCAOM)
Oklahoma City Metro Locations
Phone: (405) 401-6380