Proper Nutrition is Essential for Health

• In these times of increased health care costs and economic uncertainty, it's more important than ever to know how to maintain health to prevent disease, and how to promote health in the face of disease, using proper nutrition and lifestyle.
• The balance of health requires 5 lifestyle factors; adequate exercise, adequate rest, stable emotions, minimal exposure to toxins or reactive substances, and adequate nutrition.
• Of these, the balance of nutrition is the most complicated because it requires proper diet, digestion, absorption and metabolism, and the balance of nutrition is unique to the individual depending on age, race, gender or lifestyle.
• Any disease can be made worse if the nutrition is insufficient to support health. This is particularly true in chronic disease where nutritional deficiencies are common.
• Prescription medications may actually increase the risk of nutritional imbalance due to side effects like nausea, vomiting, decreased appetite, taste alterations or malabsorption of nutrients. Medication side effects are often treated with additional drugs, increasing the risk of toxicity and nutritional imbalance.
• A nutrition assessment should therefore be routine in the work up of every patient in order to rule out the possibility that symptoms are related to inadequate nutrition. This is particularly true in chronic disease, where nutritional deficiencies are common.

Assessments and Consultations

• Nutrition Consultation identifies main areas of diet or digestive imbalance which may increase the risk of nutritional insufficiency, and provides basic information on how to address these concerns.
• The client  receives a comprehensive written analysis of nutritional strengths and weakness, potential drug toxicities, drug-nutrient interactions, needed dietary revisions, dietary supplements, meal planning and recommendations on how best to promote optimal nutritional health.

For more information, see Assessment-Consultation Facts.

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Covered by Many Health Plans

• John Cartmell is an in-network provider for Aetna, Cigna, First Choice Health, Premera Blue Cross, Regence, Uniform Medical, United Health Care and Whole Health Network plans. Other health plans may also provide benefits for nutritional  services.
   
• Check with your insurance provider to see if your plan will cover nutrition counseling  for medically related conditions that may be associated with nutritional imbalance or insufficiency.

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To Schedule a Nutrition Assessment and Consultation

   Contact John W. Cartmell at: dietadvisor@comcast.net

    Or complete the form by clicking here Nutrition Information Form  and saving the form to your desktop.

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John W. Cartmell, MS, CN, LMP, has been a Licensed Massage Practitioner in Washington State since 1985, and a Certified Nutritionist since 2004, receiving a Master of Science degree in Nutrition Research from Bastyr University of Natural Medicine, Kenmore, WA. His master's thesis was on "Nutrition in Fibromyalgia". H

As a Certified Nutritionist, he specializes in clinical nutrition, helping clients with obesity, diabetes, digestion problems, acid reflux (GERD), irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), inflammatory bowel disease (ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease), cancer, memory problems, insomnia, chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), fibromyalgia, allergies, arthritis, autoimmune disorders, heart disease, hypertension, post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), age-related degenerative disease and other chronic conditions of ill health.

He has published papers and letters on health and nutrition in several professional journals. His book, “Fibromyalgia, a Nutritional Approach to Prevention, Treatment and Cure”, was published in March, 2008.

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