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Dr. Jimenez Nutrition and Wellness Functional Medicine Team. Food provides people with the necessary energy and nutrients to be healthy. By eating various foods, including good quality vegetables, fruits, whole-grain products, and lean meats, the body can replenish itself with the essential proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, and minerals to function effectively. Nutrients include proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, minerals, and water.
Healthy eating does not have to be hard. The key is to eat various foods, including vegetables, fruits, and whole grains. Eat lean meats, poultry, fish, beans, and low-fat dairy products and drink lots of water. Limit salt, sugar, alcohol, saturated fat, and trans fat. Saturated fats usually come from animals. Look for trans fat on the labels of processed foods, margarine, and shortenings.
Dr. Alex Jimenez offers nutritional examples as well as describes the importance of balanced nutrition throughout this series of articles, emphasizing how a proper diet combined with physical activity can help individuals reach and maintain a healthy weight, reduce their risk of developing chronic diseases like heart disease, and ultimately promote overall health and wellness.
The information herein is not intended to replace a one-on-one relationship with a qualified healthcare professional or licensed physician and is not medical advice. We encourage you to make your own health care decisions based on your research and partnership with a qualified health care professional. Our information scope is limited to chiropractic, musculoskeletal, physical medicines, wellness, sensitive health issues, functional medicine articles, topics, and discussions. We provide and present clinical collaboration with specialists from a wide array of disciplines. Each specialist is governed by their professional scope of practice and their jurisdiction of licensure. We use functional health & wellness protocols to treat and support care for the injuries or disorders of the musculoskeletal system. Our videos, posts, topics, subjects, and insights cover clinical matters, issues, and topics that relate to and support, directly or indirectly, our clinical scope of practice.* Our office has made a reasonable attempt to provide supportive citations and has identified the relevant research study or studies supporting our posts. We provide copies of supporting research studies available to regulatory boards and the public upon request.
We understand that we cover matters that require an additional explanation of how it may assist in a particular care plan or treatment protocol; therefore, to further discuss the subject matter above, please feel free to ask Dr. Alex Jimenez or contact us at 915-850-0900.
Dr. Alex Jimenez DC, MSACP, CCST, IFMCP*, CIFM*, ATN*
email: coach@elpasofunctionalmedicine.com
phone: 915-850-0900
Licensed in: Texas & New Mexico*
Detoxifying Effects of Curcumin
The growing evidence about the clinical application of naturally occurring phytochemicals has revealed multiple!-->…
Detoxifying Effects of Ginger
Botanical plants and natural remedies are used worldwide to provide flavor or spice to our food. Commonly, we!-->…
Antioxidants That Are Natural
The utilization of natural antioxidants to reduce oxidative stress is a promising therapeutic approach to prevent!-->…
Dandelion’s Bioactive Compounds for Detoxification
Metabolic and chronic disorders have created a tremendous economic burden in developed and developing countries.!-->…
Dietary Fiber and Liver Detoxification
Liver health and function are tied to an intricate web that comprises the gut microbiome, absorption, transport,!-->…
Irregular Heartbeats Nutrition and Chiropractic
An irregular heartbeat can be a sign of something very serious. You should always contact your doctor or 911 when!-->…
A Functional Approach For Hypertension
Hypertension refers to high blood pressure. Hypertension is not always caused by increased levels of LDL or low!-->…
Muscle Wasting: Treatment Options
Muscle wasting conditions have multiple etiologies. For example, sarcopenia is generally associated with aging,!-->…
Support Full Body Detox With Chiropractic
If dealing with chronic disease, condition, or just poor overall health, detox support combined with!-->…
Heart Health, The Spine, and The Chiropractic Connection
Heart health and proper function circulate millions of gallons of blood to the entire body. The circulation!-->…
What is Immune Dysfunction and Inflammation? – A Primary Mechanism | El…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqAT0DUBn1s!-->…
Tired Of Being Sick Chiropractic and Health Coaching
Individuals are tired of feeling sick. Many doctors prescribe medications just to control the symptoms of various!-->…
Thyroid Dysfunction presentation *PART 3* | (2021) EL PASO, TX
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Otvu_n_GgZE!-->…
What do Hormones do? | El Paso, Tx (2021)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIBrKKXtxh8!-->…
What do HORMONES do in our body? | El Paso, Tx (2021)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWDBaaJ6Ge4
This is the first of three episodes Dr. Alex Jimenez brings to!-->!-->!-->…
What is the role of HORMONES in our physiology? | El Paso, Tx (2021) EPISODE 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KmNzSAto30
This is the second of three episodes Dr. Alex Jimenez brings to!-->!-->!-->…
PCOS: Genetic Predisposition-Part 2
We have gone through the evolutionary path, the historical turn of events, and the metabolic shifts that our women!-->…
PCOS: A Genetic Predisposition-Part 1
The prevalence of PCOS in women of reproductive age varies but has been reported to be around 6%-19% of this!-->…
What is Thyroid Dysfunction? | El Paso, Tx (2021)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_nE2v_Dv50
Dr. Alex Jimenez brings to you this episode of Functional!-->!-->!-->…
Immunology of Breast Milk
Science and technology have elucidated important information about neonates and infants' applications and benefits!-->…
Testing for Wheat Sensitivities
Gluten related diseases are a global phenomenon. The numbers are outstanding; 10% of the global population reports!-->…
Screening Technology in Gut Imbalances
Our gastrointestinal tract hosts more than 1000 species of bacteria that work symbiotically with us to promote a!-->…
Holiday Weight Gain, Back Pain, and Chiropractic Recommendations
Chiropractic recommendations to avoid holiday weight gain and back pain. All the food, gravy, pies, cookies,!-->…
Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction and Cardiac Disease
The global death rate of cardiac diseases is 30%, despite all the medical advances and treatments. The main!-->…
Calcium and Vitamin D for Optimal Bone Health
Calcium and Vitamin D for optimal bone health. The body's bones/skeletal system contains a huge amount of calcium.!-->…
Genetic Science and Human Milk
Have you ever noticed that the human is the smallest newborn mammal? It turns out that we are born, and we are so!-->…
Hormones and Breastfeeding
There is a very tight interaction between women’s health, hormonal influence, pregnancy, and breastfeeding. Also,!-->…
HPA-axis. Are you stressed?
Stress, like inflammation, is a natural response. We need stress to function on a normal basis. So, when the!-->…
Chiropractic Alignment For Increased Well Being and Positivity
Chiropractic alignment is often the go-to option when injured or experiencing various types of pain. And for good!-->…
Autoimmune Disease and Chiropractic Care
The nervous system helps regulate the body's immunity. Any dysfunction can initiate or aggravate issues!-->…
Metabolic Syndrome and Chiropractic Wellness
Metabolic syndrome is the term for a group of risk factors like heart disease and diabetes, along with other!-->…
Women’s Endocrine Nutrition
A woman’s concerns about her endocrine health will be on her mind each month from age 12. Indeed, hormonal cycles…
Chronic Fatigue, The Cervical Spine and Chiropractic Treatment
An examination of the cervical/neck region of the spine through chiropractic will help determine a thyroid!-->…
Supplementation and Endocrine Function
Endocrine function tends to decline with age, hormonal disorders, lifestyle, stress, and nutritional intake.…
Diabesity
Diabesity is a term that ties diabetes type II and obesity. Is this the first time you’ve heard…
Gluten-Associated Conditions
Gluten-associated diseases have been on the rise in recent years. There are several types of symptoms that patients…
Adverse Food Reactions
We’ve said it before, we all have reactions to food and food disturbances. Adverse food reactions had become one of…
Gastric Distress, Spinal Nerve Compression, and Chiropractic Release
Stomach ache, acid reflux, gas, and other symptoms of gastric distress can be linked to spinal issues and!-->…
Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
What is it? How to treat it?
We all have gastrointestinal disturbances, some of them can be mild, and other ones…
Food Allergy
Allergies have been around for what it seems like forever. Most of our patients suffer from environmental or…