Nutrition Program
Are you considering rehab because your drug or alcohol habit is out of control? If so, you will learn that nutritional therapy is part of the healing experience. However, does specific and unique treatment matter when you overcome substance abuse? In fact, it can have a lasting effect on your ability to prevent a relapse.
Eat What Your Body Needs
At a rehab facility, a nutrition education specialist challenges you to rethink your dietary choices. Sure, you already know that fruits, vegetables, and whole grains are good for you. however, you learn how they can influence your susceptibility to relapse.
During nutritional therapy, you connect the dots between disease, addiction, and malnourishment. In fact, addiction is a disease of the brain that has physiological and psychological manifestations. Healing involves making conscious changes in the way you feed your body. Moreover, supplying healthy nutrients prevents physical problems; however, the benefits go even further.
How Nutritional Therapy Becomes Part of Rehab
Pre-packaged, prepared food that many people reach for when doing drugs is often bad for you. In some situations, unhealthy foods create problems outside of drug use. For example, a lack of nutrition can lead to devastating health problems.
You eat convenience foods, but they don’t give you the energy to get out of bed. Therefore, stimulants fix the problem. You have headaches because of fast the food you eat. However, pain pills come to the rescue.
Fitting Nutritional Assistance into an Addiction Treatment Protocol
- Yoga therapy
- Psychotherapy
- Wilderness therapy
- Group therapy
- Dual diagnosis assessment
You shift your focus on making healthier choices as you approach independent living. At that point, it becomes part of the life skills training that takes place at most facilities and you shift your focus on making healthier choices as you approach independent living.