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Services: Diet & Nutrition

Your acupuncturist will give you additional handouts of foods for your particular condition based on food properties and tastes from a Chinese perspective. We carry high quality organic supplements such as Standard Process and we will recommend them based on your individual needs.

General Dietary Food Guidelines:

• Make sure to intake plenty of calories throughout the day. Average should be 2300 calories per day preconception and 2500-2700 calories per day post conception.
• Carbohydrates should be approximately 45-55% of the diet or approximately 1200-1400 calories.
• Protein should be approximately 12-14% of the diet or approximately 200 calories or 45-50 grams.
• Fats should be approximately 30% or less of the diet or approximately 500 calories.
• Sodium should be between 1000-3000mg daily.
• Lightly cook all foods to make them more easily digestable.
• Make sure all foods and drinks are room temperature or warmer.
• Try to eat more alkaline foods versus acidic foods.

Foods that enhance fertility:

• Use organically grown food whenever possible because it is more nutritional dense than processed food.
• Eat plenty of organic vegetables and fruits.
• Make sure you get an adequate amount of protein each day; especially important for vegetarians. Make sure meat, fish, poultry and eggs are free range and hormone free.
• Sprouts, nuts, seeds, and eggs are especially good sources of protein for vegetarians.
• Complex carbohydrates-whole grains like brown rice, oats, quinoa, barley, spelt.
• Eat phytoestrogens, including beans such as lentils, chickpeas and Soya products.
• Eat oily foods, including fish, nuts, seeds and oils.
• Increase intake of fiber.
• Increase intake of water.

Foods to Avoid and lifestyle modifications:

• Limit fruit juices. Whole fruit is preferable to juices for the fiber content and lowered sugar levels.
• All Flour and Pasta products.
• Caffeine
• Sodas
• Alcohol
• Recreational drugs
• Smoking and chewing tobacco
• Gluten
• Sugar and artificial sweeteners
• Shellfish and fish without scales
• Farmed fish
• All junk food and fast food
• Limit excessive dairy intake
• White flour products like bread and tortillas
• Baked goods
• Additives and preservatives like BHA and MSG
• Peanut Butter and Spinach - both deplete calcium stores
• Rare red meat - can cause toxoplasmosis
• Luncheon meat and processed meats with Nitrates and Nitrites
• No raw or cold food
• Hibiscus
• Pennyroyal
• Nutmeg
• Goldenseal and Echinacea
• Wormwood
• Feverfew
• Ginkgo Biloba if there are sperm issues
• Stress
• Chemical and environmental toxins like: aerosol cans, paints, glues, household cleaners, dyes, pesticides

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