Functional Food Plans
Food as Medicine Guides
Live Well 365 is rooted in lifestyle and functional medicine principles — while all of the lifestyle factors are important for overall health, you can’t out work a poor diet.
Using food as medicine is a key principle that we continue to emphasize with our clients. In addition, these food plans are recommended by Dr. Houser when she has patients who are looking for diet guidance to:
relieve discomfort or distressing symptoms
use food-as-medicine to promote overall health
These food plans are designed by the Institute for Functional Medicine and are tools to help you along your health journey, as that journey often starts in the kitchen, this is a great guide along the way! Take a look at the Core Food Plan below and read on to learn more about our free food plans for several other specific conditions.
Core Food Plan
Why use the Core Food Plan?
The Core Food Plan is designed for you if, you’re looking for:
principles of healthy eating
health maintenance
disease prevention
awareness of your relationship with food
This plan is a guide to encourage quality nutrition and nourishment. It is a tool developed based on research by the Institute for Functional Medicine.
The Core Food Plan consists of a foundational eating plan (sort of like a daily meal plan, but with more flexibility) that focuses on whole, clean foods with an emphasis on quality protein, fat, fiber, and phytonutrients. In addition, when you download all aspects of the Core Food Plan you’ll receive a document full of delicious recipes, meal and snack ideas, a shopping guide, and a comprehensive guide to refer to for education.
Click on the images below for your documents! Click on each respective link for access to vegan and vegetarian versions of the Core Food Plan.
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To have access to our detox food plan, elimination diet guide, phytonutrient food plan, and cardiometabolic food plan please enter your email address when prompted to receive the corresponding comprehensive guide, food plan, and recipes!
Detox Plan
The Detox Food Plan provides nutrition suggestions to optimize the metabolic detoxification process and lower the overall toxic burden.
With this guide you’ll learn to reduce food triggers, support liver function, provide targeted antioxidants, encourage healthy toxin elimination, balance hormone metabolism, and more!
Elimination Diet
The Elimination Diet walks you through the process of identifying foods that could be causing distressing symptoms. Some of the features of this diet are that it works to reduce inflammation, supports a healthy microbiome, promotes body awareness to food, and uses nutrients to heal the gut.
This elimination process can span over several weeks to months and involves removing common foods that could be the culprit, then reintroducing them one at a time to identify the true problem foods.
Phytonutrient Plan
The Phytonutrient Food Plan puts an emphasis on the natural compounds found in plant foods called phytonutrients or phytochemicals. For humans, phytonutrients aren’t essential, but they are very beneficial for overall health. They stimulate enzymes that help the body rid toxins, they support the immune system, promote cardiovascular health, and stimulate the death of cancer cells.
These powerful compounds are found in our colorful plant foods — green, yellow, orange, red, blue-purple, and white. This food plan works as a guide to incorporate a variety of phytonutrient-rich foods into your diet.
Cardiometabolic Plan
The Cardiometabolic Food Plan was developed for those with, or at risk for chronic metabolic conditions (cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, etc.). Diet and lifestyle interventions have been found to be very effective in treating these types of chronic conditions.
This food plan features a modified Mediterranean approach that is low glycemic and balances blood sugars, high fiber, emphasizes quality fats and phytonutrients.