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Medical Foods Plan -- Article One

By Jill Place, MA, RD

So you've made the decision to go on a medical foods plan. Medical foods from Metagenics® are powdered high-quality vegetarian combinations of food components, vitamins, minerals, and other nutritive substances that may provide nutrition support for certain diseases and inflammation, conditions. Cutting-edge scientific research goes into the creation of these products that may have profound positive effects upon immune deficiency, liver health, diabetes, hormone imbalance, and digestive problems. Nutrients in all these medical foods are contained in a low-allergy rice base that may also help promote digestive health. For more information about medical foods, please see the Medical Foods page.

These products are nutritionally complete for each condition so that little extra supplementation is necessary. Condition-specific, low-allergy diets are also suggested. All foods that may cause sensitivities of any kind are limited or removed from your diet. These recommended diets are varied but most have lots of fruits and vegetables, lots of fiber from whole grains, beans, and legumes, and low-fat protein from fish, chicken, turkey, and game.

UltraInflamX® may be a good idea for anyone who has inflammation, immune, or autoimmune conditions such as Arthritis or Fibromyalgia. UltraClear® and UltraClear Plus® may help the liver in its job of clearing the body of harmful substances. These two products are ideal maintenance medical foods after initial programs with UltraInflamX or UltraClear Sustain®. UltraClear Sustain may help those with digestive disorders, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, and "Leaky Gut" caused by the breakdown of the protective gut barrier. UltraGlycemX® has been formulated to provide nutrition support for those with Type II Diabetes, Hypoglycemia, Obesity, Hypertension, insulin resistance, and high triglycerides. EstroBalance® is the newest member of the medical food family. It may provide nutritional support for women's hormone cycles.

UltraInflamX, UltraGlycemX, and EstroBalance come with glossy, well-written how-to booklets to help you on your way. The other medical foods also come with less extensive informational booklets. Most of the information you need to know to make your medical foods plan a success is contained in the following five pages, General Eating Plan, Mixing Your Medical Food, Your Low-Allergy Shopping List 1, Your Low-Allergy Shopping List 2, and Your User-Friendly Low Allergy Diet. To begin, click on any one of these pages.

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