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THE POWER OF FOODS
From the desk of the editor
Dr. Meaghan Kirschling
Welcome to the May 2017 version of Beyond. In this month’s edition, we explore the power
of food. The topic of diet is so important for everyone since we eat 3-6 times a day. Food is a
part of our everyday life, and it can be either beneficial or harmful.
We can’t live in a bubble. We can’t avoid all the dangers of daily living, but I am a firm believer
that education is one of the most powerful tools that we have. We simply cannot make better
choices for ourselves unless we know what choices are indeed better. There is no topic where
this is truer than nutrition.
I have learned from clinical practice that food can be our demise or it can build us up and that
it is difficult to make changes in health without addressing the diet. I think for so many decades,
we have been told (or have even told ourselves) that food doesn’t matter. Many of us feel that
we can just take supplements or medications and don’t need to change our diets.
This is simply not true!
Diet is the foundation of health and wellness and extremely vital. Our diet choices do matter,
and food is powerful. Simply put: We can eat things that nourish us, or we can eat things that
stress our pathways.
Everything we eat turns into a chemical reaction, and different foods trigger us differently. We
know this because we feel different when we eat broccoli vs. a Twinkie. It feels different to us
going in, and our bodies definitely feel different two hours later.
Hippocrates got it right when he said: “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”
Hope you enjoy this edition of Beyond. Feel free to reach out to us at any time at info@
btbha.com.
Dr. Meaghan Kirschling, DC, APRN, RN, MS