AltHealthConnect.com

Welcome to www.healthcarepractitioners.net, an exclusive resource to help you obtain all services relating to Alternative Medicine.

Food is a basic human need. The body obtains its growth and maintenance requirements from what we consume. For a healthy life certain vital components are necessary, such as carbohydrate, protein, minerals and vitamins in appropriate proportion. It is essential to maintain a balance in the types of food we consume both for the purpose of nutrition and for the easy passage of food through our intestines. Those suffering from certain ailments such as diabetes, kidney ailments, obesity and hypertension require specialized diets.

When man was still living in the forests as a hunter gatherer, he had to necessarily eat a variety of seasonal foods. Forests rarely brought forth the same food the year round. Different seasons produced different varieties of fruits, roots and nuts, the consumption of which helped us to maintain a natural balance in our intake. Today, one might have bacon and eggs for breakfast and beef steak for lunch for all the 365 days of the year. Most of the items we eat are processed foods that come out of cans or are wrapped in microwavable wrappers. What we eat day after day no longer represents the type of sustenance that our stomachs were originally designed to handle. This has serious health consequences as we have an excess of some elements and chronic shortage of others needed for the body’s wellbeing.

It is therefore essential that those who suffer from ailments must regulate their diet scientifically. For those who are healthy, regulating diet is the best way to avoid contracting many lifestyle driven ailments.

Read about Nutrition

This alternative therapy portal also contains an extensive library that includes several articles on nutrition, as well as many forms of alternative modalities and therapies such as, natural medicine, Chinese medicine, homeopathy and other complementary therapies that help in providing you with quality holistic healthcare.

Supplements/Remedies

www.althealthconnect.com also provides comprehensive information about natural supplements in combating various ailments. You can read the write-ups on the various supplements and remedies relevant to your condition. This information also gives authoritative references relating to the herbs and other constituents contained in the supplements to enable you to get background information on each of them. You will also find a list of genuine outlets (including their telephone numbers) from which you can order the supplements and remedies.

Discussion Forum

You can begin a discussion on topics such as chiropractic treatment, complementary and alternative modalities, energy healing, natural healing, facial acupuncture or any other topic relating to health. You can also ask a practitioner your health related questions and receive direct answers.

Alternative Health Directory

www.healthcarepractitioners.net is a component of www.althealthconnect.com, launched by the National Institute of Alternative Health Care (NIAHC). Our mission is to promote traditional and contemporary approaches in holistic health care.

With www.althealthconnect.com, we aim to bring the all approaches to holistic healthcare under a single umbrella. Our alternative health directory provides the most comprehensive information about alternative practitioners, treatment centers and avenues for education and training in various fields of alternative health care. We also strive to encourage dialogue between various systems to develop an inter-disciplinary approach and deepen awareness of the basic principles.

Future of Complementary Therapies

Many of the alternative and complementary healthcare systems that we know have been in practice for centuries now and have a proven success rate in treating ailments. However, with the avent of mainstream medicine, these systems suffered a setback as people sought conventional medical treatment for quick relief of symptoms, ignoring the root causes.

Research in recent decades has brought up ample evidence for the effectiveness of holistic approaches like Ayurveda, Yoga, Acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine. More and more people are turning to these non-invasive therapies for relief from lifestyle and stress-related conditions like chronic pain, diabetes, depression, high blood pressure and obesity. The best part is that many of these gentle yet powerful methods are complementary therapies that can be applied along with conventional treatment.