Michael McEvoy will help you to customize a nutrition program that is right for you.

Customizing a person's nutrition and wellness program is critical. This is done by identifying each person's unique bio-chemical qualities. Many of these factors include:

• Oxidation Rate: The rate in which your body converts food into energy
• Metabolic Type: Based on oxidation, endocrine, and nervous system dominance
• Body Type: Physical Constitution
• Ideal Body Weight: Diet and weight maintenance goals

Many people may benefit from a customized nutrition program. As the body becomes deregulated as a result of numerous biochemical factors, toxicities and stresses, several symptomatic conditions may develop. Re-balancing the body chemistry through the use of proper, individualized nutrition therapies is the first step towards radiant health.

• Here are a list of health conditions that may be helped through customized nutrition:

  Chronic Fatigue	Adrenal Insufficiency
  Fibromyalgia	Immune System Dysfunctions
  Migraine Headaches	Insomnia
  Dizziness, Lightheadedness	Acid Reflux, Acid Indigestion, or Heartburn
  Hypoglycemia	Prostate Inflammation
  Constipation	Digestive Disorders
  Mental Disorders	Diabetes, Obesity
  Asthma	Hypercholesterolemia
  Sinus Infections	Psoriasis

Your Food- A Cause for Concern

Food is the body's primary energy fuel. Without a proper fuel source, the body suffers. Not only is eating the right foods for you very important, but also where the food comes from and how it is prepared is equally important.

Unfortunately many commercially grown foods today lack several vital nutrients and are not suitable for human consumption. This is due largely to the addition of NPK fertilizers over the past 6 decades. NPK, which stands for Nitrogen, Phosphorous and Potassium, are 3 minerals which are essential for plant development. In fact, crop yields using NPK fertilizers produce abundant yields. The major problem though, is that NPK fertilizers lack the other essential minerals for plant growth such as: selenium, calcium, magnesium, cobalt, iron, copper, zinc as well as the trace minerals boron, iodine and molybdenum. NPK fertilizers don't produce healthy crops because they were never intended to be used for nutrition. They were originally produced for weapons of war by chemical companies. In addition to this widespread assault on food, NPK fertilizers deplete the soil of nutrients, making subsequent crops less and less nutritious.

But this is only the beginning of the story. Commercially grown produce is heavily contaminated with toxic pesticides, fungicides and insecticides. For thousands of years, soil enrichment techniques served as the primary method of warding off insects from crops. The high mineral and nutrient content of each plant served as a barrier against the invading species of insects. However after the advent of NPK fertilizers and the depletion of mineral content, plants were no longer able to ward off insects naturally. This lead to the development of commercial insecticide use. Today nearly 3 billion pounds of insecticides are sprayed on crops annually. This has contributed largely to the incidence of disease. Repeated studies have conclusively linked insecticide carcinogens to be primary, cancer causing agents. Due to ineffective and corrupt political agendas, these life threatening agents are still heavily used on American produce today.

Meat, Fish and Water

Commercially grown livestock are injected with high amounts of antibiotics. Studies have shown that half of the the country's antibiotic production is used on poultry and livestock! That is nearly 8 million pounds annually. Rampant antibiotic use contributes to heavily resistant strains of bacteria such as salmonella and campylobacter. Certain antibacterial drugs like sulfamethzine are known carcinogens and harmful to human health.

In addition to the injection of antibiotics, commercial cattle are fattened by using soy and corn, bringing their body weight up to 1200-1300 pounds prior to being slaughtered. This is 300-400 pounds heavier than the weight of a cow that is grass fed. Obviously the commercial farmer is looking for a higher beef yield. This alternative food source is not what cattle have been raised on for thousands of years. This type of feeding potentially fractures the health as well as the DNA structures of the animal, making the end product highly questionable.

It has been known for several decades that the contamination of the world's oceans and lakes has rendered many fish toxic. Large fish such as tuna and swordfish are heavily contaminated with mercury, toxic metals, PCB's, dioxins, petrochemicals and other carcinogenic contaminants. Ingestion of large fish is one of the most common sources of mercury toxicity. Coal burning factories are a major source of the release of mercury vapors into the atmosphere. The dumping of waste into the oceans has greatly contributed to the toxicity to our waters.

Mercury is a toxic metal that inhibits many critical bodily functions such as ATP (energy production), enzyme firing, organ and glandular function, brain and neuron functioning, and muscle functioning, just to name a few. PCB's, dioxins and petroleum based chemicals are highly carcinogenic and are toxic to your brain and liver, Small fish such as wild Alaskan salmon and sardines are significantly less contaminated.

Organic, Locally Grown Produce - Still Your Best Bet

Research shows that organically grown produce is much safer and much more nutrient dense than commercially grown foods. A 1990 study revealed that the mineral content of organically grown foods were 35% - 50% greater than that of commercial foods. In addition, organically grown foods are not sprayed with carcinogenic insecticides, making them safe for human consumption.

All produce will begin to lose nutritional value the longer it takes to transport to the supermarket and the longer it sits on the shelf. The best source of food is organically grown from a local, family owned farm. This website endorses organic, family farms. See the "resources" page for more information.

The Endorsement for the Ancestral Diet

This website endorses the ancestral diet, or the diet in which your ancestors were consuming. The concept of the ancestral diet was first introduced in Weston A. Price's groundbreaking book: "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration", published in 1939. According to Price's worldwide studies into the health of humans, the healthiest humans discovered were those who ate the whole foods of their ancestors. This includes vegetables, grains and fat and proteins from various animal sources. Those indigineous people who took on an industrailized diet that consisted of refined and processed foods, showed high levels of disease, bone and tooth decay in just one generation of adaptation. This groundbreaking work revealed the swift effects of improper nutrition on our species.

With the enormous amount of mis-information that exists today concerning human health, Weston A. Price's text rings as true today as it did in 1939.

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Why is customizing a nutrition program important? Let's say that you are extremely fatigued but don't know why. To combat this fatigue you start to drink more coffee for energy and eat more sugar containing foods. Because you have a very busy life you find that in order to meet the requirements of your work, more energy is needed. As you increase the intake of coffee, you begin to feel that you can perform more optimally, and the pastry for breakfast added more kick. By lunch time you start to feel like you need that boost again. So with your lunch you drink more coffee, and have soda. This provides you with quick fuel for the next several hours. By dinner time you are exhausted. Your body aches and your throat is very dry. You crash on the couch for several hours and watch television. You haven't the energy to do much of anything else.

By the end of the work week you decide you need to have a few drinks.  After all alcohol creates a celebratory mood. And since your energy levels are quite low by themselves, you need something to cheer you up. After a few months or a few weeks on this pattern, you notice that your digestion isn't very good. You start having indigestion and heartburn. Not knowing why this is happening, you decide to pick up some antacids. And after every meal you take them. They seem to be working so you up your intake to ensure that they work. Several months go by and you start to get constipated followed by bouts of diarrhea. This is often accompanied by other symptoms, like the flu, nausea or anxiety. Fearing that you have some unknown degenerative disease you go to your doctor. He says he has no idea why you are so sick. He thinks that it might be restless leg syndrome or ADHD. Fearing that it is both of these conditions, you decide to take both of these medications on top of the prescription strength antacids and prescription strength maalox he gives you.

This type of pattern goes on all the time with people in our society. People eat and drink large amounts of sub-optimal foods and drugs, which by their nature erodes the body's immune, digestive and eliminatory systems. On top of it most people don't realize the harm they are doing to themselves. They know very little about their health, so therefore can't be responsible for it. So they turn to prescription drugs and doctors as the authority. I am not saying that I am a substitute for your doctor, but I am saying that YOU should be the sole authority in your own health. Not me, not your doctor, not anyone. You are the author of your own health and body.

What I can do for you is to help you see that with correct nutrition, correct diet and the correct regimen of vitamins and minerals customized for each person, you will begin to feel better. It is common that people who begin a nutrition program find that they no longer want or enjoy foods like coffee, sugar, junk food and even nicotine. To a person that is in an addictive pattern of health, this may sound crazy. I never realized how much I was addicted to sugar until I changed my diet. For many people it is part of the daily routine. Yet it can be so destructive to the body.

Acid forming foods such as coffee and sugar not only alter the body's glucose and oxidation, prolonged use will put a person in an alarm stage of stress. This is commonly referred to as adrenal burnout. The body chemistry will adapt as best as it can to what it is getting. What the body doesn't get nutritionally from food, it will have to get from the body itself. Your body will begin to cannibalize itself in search of nutrients and minerals. The bones, muscles, connective tissue, and arteries are stripped of vital nutrients that your body needs to survive. This sets the foundation for acidosis and chronic health disorders. How can one's health thrive under such conditions?

First, it is vitally important to look at the degenerative pattern of health that one is currently in. Otherwise if this goes un-checked, it will not be effective to set a correct foundation and nutrition program. If the underlying structure of a building is dilapidated, how can the building support itself? We must destroy the old foundation and create a new one. This basic logic must be the first stage of healing. Recognize first that the pattern of health that you are in, is sub-optimal. Open yourself up to the possibility of re-organization.

Often times people are so attached to their own suffering that they are overwhelmed. People cannot believe that all along they were harming their own bodies by depleting themselves of what was missing or excessive in their diet. This realization can be the greatest lesson of health. It is my belief that when there is sickness, disease or ill health, it is the body telling you something isn't right. This is an excellent opportunity to evaluate your own health, lifestyle and nutrition choices. From here we can begin a customized nutrition program for you.