Proper Nutrition is Essential for Health

• In these times of increased health care costs and economic uncertainty, it's more important than ever for people to know how to maintain health to prevent disease, and how to promote health in the face of disease using proper nutrition and healthy lifestyle.
  
  
• The balance of health requires a balance of five essential lifestyle factors:
  • Exercise
  • Rest
  • Adaptability to physical or emotional stress
  • Minimal Exposure to Toxins
  • Adequate Nutrition
    
    
• Of these, nutritional balance is the most complicated
  • Proper nutrition requires a balanced diet, adequate digestion/absorption and metabolism
  • The balance of nutrition is unique to the individual and can often vary dramatically with age, race, gender and lifestyle
    
    
• Any disease can be made worse if nutrition is insufficient to support health
  • Nutritional deficiencies are common in chronic or degenerative disease
  • Nutrition assessment can help identify areas of nutritional weakness that may contribute to symptoms
  
  
• Proper nutrition is an important part of personal wellness and self care
  

Assessments and Consultations

• Nutrition Consultation identifies areas of nutritional strength and weakness, and provides information on how best to optimize nutritional balance.
  
  
• Nutrition Assessment provides a comprehensive written analysis of nutritional status and areas of weakness, with suggested dietary revisions, meal planning, any dietary supplements, and information on how best to promote health through optimal nutrition.
  
  
• The client learns how to design meals properly without the need for a specific diet.

For more information, see Consultation-Assessment Facts.

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Nutritional Consultations and Counseling Are Covered by Many Health Plans

• John W. Cartmell is an in-network provider for Premera Blue Cross, Regence, Cigna, Aetna, Whole Health Network, and First Choice Health, including Corvel, and Group Health Options and Alliant plans. Other health plans may also provide benefits for nutritional services. 
  
  
• Ask your insurance provider if your plan will cover nutrition consultation services for conditions associated with nutritional imbalance (including Diabetes, Heart Disease, High Cholesterol, High Blood Pressure, IBS, Acid Reflux (GERD) Yeast Infections, Constipation, Diarrhea, Food Sensitivities, Nausea, Arthritis, Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue and Cancer)

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To Schedule a Nutrition Consultation and Assessment

   Contact John W. Cartmell

  Or Download the Form Here: Nutrition Information Form

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John W. Cartmell, MS, 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 in Kenmore, WA. His master's thesis was on "Nutrition in Fibromyalgia".

As a Certified Nutritionist, he specializes in clinical nutrition, helping to address the specific nutritional needs of 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 or 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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