Nutrition At Northside Family Chiropractic, Owasso's Family Chiropractors
Northside Family Chiropractic is proud to offer nutritional counseling services and Biotics nutritional products. Biotics Research company has been producing specialty pharmaceutical grade nutritional products for over 30 years. Northside Family Chiropractic uses the Nutritional Therapeutic Assocations exam and Nutri-Q assessment program to tailor a supplementation program to meet your individual needs. Please contact the clinic today to schedule your nutritional assessment or to order products.
American Medical Association's
New Recommendations for
Nutritional Supplements
The American Medical Association (AMA) now recommends the consumption of daily vitamins as a standard part of a preventative health care program. The new guidelines represent a paradigm shift for the AMA, which has in the past only recommended vitamin supplements for special populations (such as pregnant women) or for certain individuals with clearly defined nutritional deficiencies.
The AMA's new guidelines are not limited to any specific population group, or to those with nutritional deficiencies. The guidelines state that even people who maintain a healthy diet that is low fat, high fiber, and includes lots of antioxidant rich foods (fruits and vegetables) should supplement their diet with vitamins every day.
The position statement was issued for the AMA by Michael J. Glade, Ph.D. of the AMA's Department of Technology Assessment. It states that daily supplements can be safely used to obtain the amount of nutrients that are needed over and above a well-balanced, nutritious diet to provide optimal health benefits.
The American Medical Association is the most conservative and respected medical body in the United States, and does not issue such blanket recommendations without a consensus among medical leadership
The AMA guidelines follow other similar guidelines issued by leading health authorities in the past two years. In January, the American Dietetic Association issued a new position statement on vitamin and mineral supplementation, which states that vitamin and mineral supplementation is appropriate when well supported by scientific evidence of safety and effectiveness.
This recommendation was followed by stronger recommendations by several leading medical schools such as Harvard, Cal-Berkeley, and Columbia, which state that all adults, including healthy people who eat healthy diets can optimize their health through the consumption of vitamin supplements. Harvard researchers have gone so far as to say that failure to consume certain supplementary vitamins is equal to the risk of smoking.