Care from Our Chiropractors Includes Healthy Lifestyle Choices

At Barrhaven Family Chiropractic, our Ottawa wellness chiropractor focuses on total body wellness by not only helping to alleviate pain, but assisting patients in eating right and keeping their bodies healthy.

Healthy eating begins with balance, variety and moderation.  This means eating a balanced diet with a variety of foods while consuming sweets and simple carbohydrates in moderation.  You can achieve good nutrition without cutting every “bad” food out of your diet completely. Start your journey to healthy eating and weight loss by following a few simple tips.

Tips for Good Nutrition and Optimal Health

Eat a variety of nutrient rich foods that are low in calories.  Your body needs more than 40 daily nutrients and one kind of food cannot supply all of them.  By eating limited whole grains preferably gluten free, vegetables, fruits, and protein you will be able to give your body nutrients.

Maintain a healthy weight.  Even if you could use to drop a few pounds it is healthier to maintain weight at a healthy level rather than going up and down. By eating 3 servings of whole grains, 2-4 servings of fruit and 3-5 servings of vegetables a day you will keep your metabolism high and achieve weight loss. Fill your stomach with fiber rich foods and protein and watch cravings for sugar and empty carbohydrates begin to diminish.

Balance your food choices over time.  Do not eliminate foods that you like from your diet all at once.  If you deprive yourself of certain foods then you may start to crave them more and this could trigger overeating. Just reduce the portions and the number of times you eat unhealthy food during the week.

Read labels.  Food labels can be deceiving just because it says” vitamin enriched” or  “healthy” on the label does not necessary mean it is good for you.  A good rule for making healthy food choices is to eat whole, fresh, unprocessed foods whenever possible.  If you do buy packed food then read the label, smaller the ingredient list the better.

Don’t be confused about carbohydrates; they are not all bad. There are good carbohydrates called complex carbohydrates that are needed for our body to operate. These carbohydrates come from whole grains and fiber which are good for you and make you feel full longer.

Total nutrition and maintaining healthy lifestyle is work. Implementing nutritional foods into your family’s diet may be easier than you think. Nutritional experts will say not to cut any food group out of your diet including carbohydrates.  Our bodies need nutrients, protein, fiber and carbohydrates to stay balanced and functional.  We can still have dessert, candy or other treats as long as we are filling up on “good-for-you” foods first and eating the sweets in moderation.

What are some healthy foods you like to feed your family?

Wellness can mean different things to different people, but at Barrhaven Family Chiropractic wellness means complete health.  There are several factors that contribute to complete health or “total body wellness.”  These factors include nutrition, stress management, weight loss, healthy lifestyle choices and chiropractic care.   All of these factors work together to help patients enjoy a happier, healthier life.

Chiropractic care can help with pain management, loss of mobility and even allergies or asthma, but this is only one ingredient of the total wellness recipe.  Our Ottawa chiropractor will not only help you with chronic pain and personal injury, but can also help you improve everyday health and wellness as you age.

Be Fit, Eat Right and Think Well by Living a Healthy Lifestyle

Many diseases and ailments can be prevented by making healthier lifestyle choices.  Diseases like diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, depression and immune system dysfunction can be prevented or eliminated by changing your eating and exercise habits.

Our chiropractors Dr.Kahlid Mankal and Dr. Surbjit Herr and their staff at Barrhaven wellness centre offer personalized nutrition counseling, a healthy weight loss program, fitness and exercise programs, stress management and other healthy lifestyle programs.  With these programs patients receive coaching from nutritionists and other professionals to help them attain and maintain a healthy body weight.  Maintaining your ideal weight can help you control blood pressure and blood sugar levels while protecting muscles and joints from unnecessary stress and strain.  Exercise can help you build strength and flexibility as well as endurance.  Our wellness professionals will design a personalized program to assist you in changing your lifestyle and switching to healthier alternatives that will make you look and feel better daily.

Are you looking for ways to improve your wellness lifestyle? Call our Barrhaven Family Chiropractic office and let our Ottawa chiropractor help you achieve total wellness today.

Do you suffer from frequent headaches?

Are you struggling to recover from a severe head injury? Do you have children with autism, children with ADHD, or children with other special needs?

If so, the cranial adjusting provided by Dr. Kahlid Mankal and the rest of the staff at Barrhaven Family Chiropractic in Ottawa might be the solution. Cranial adjusting is a natural healing technique designed to detect and adjust misalignments in the skull and subluxations — otherwise known as slight misalignments— of the spine interfering with nerve function. Skilled chiropractors will realign these bones gently with care.

Once the adjustment is complete, patients often experience immediate results. There's a reason for this: The misalignments and subluxations often interfere with proper nervous system function. When a chiropractor corrects these problems, the body can then begin to heal itself.

Relieving Pain with Cranial Adjusting

Barrhaven Family Chiropractic has brought the techniques of cranial adjusting to the people living in the Ottawa area. And so far, the clinic has achieved noteworthy results. Patients who came to Dr. Mankal and his staffers complaining of near constant headaches have experienced immediate relief after few cranial sessions.

But perhaps the most incredible results come from children with special needs. Children with autism and those with ADHD have often suffered from head injuries that have caused misalignments in their skull that may have been caused from the birth process. These injuries have since prevented these children from functioning normally.

Often, cranial adjusting can make a huge difference in the lives of these children with special needs. By correcting the misalignments in these children's skulls, the chiropractors at Barrhaven Family Chiropractic can remove the interference preventing these children's bodies from functioning normally. Once the misalignments are corrected, these children often show dramatic improvements.

This technique can also help children who suffer from severe allergies, asthma, seizures, learning and speech disabilities.

Have you experienced cranial adjusting? How did it help?

Locally Grown, Organically Grown - You Are What You Eat

Why Eat Organically Grown Food?

Just as we are what we eat, fruits and vegetables are what they eat, too. Food labeled "organic" is grown without artificial pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizer. Organic farmers use compost (which is "all natural") and "green" fertilizer to provide nourishment to their crops. Cattle and other livestock raised organically receive neither antibiotics nor growth hormones, and eat feed that is itself raised and harvested on organic farms. In part because they are locally grown, organic fruits and vegetables contain higher levels of antioxidants than produce grown via other methods. Antioxidants are powerful, health-promoting biochemicals that help prevent a wide variety of diseases, including inflammatory diseases and cancer. Organically grown food not only tastes better but is actually good for you, which of course is what we want our food to be.