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Nutritional therapy can alleviate health complaints and improve the general state of health. It aims to positively influence diseases through various treatment methods, diets and nutrition plans, to reduce the need for medication and to change the diet under certain conditions and adapt it to the course of the disease.
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Nutrition therapy for a more vital life
Modern nutritional therapy has its origins in the "doctrine of lifestyle" developed by Hippocrates, which included all measures that contributed to physical and mental health maintenance and healing. In many cultures, dietetics is a fixed component of traditional healing, including in Traditional Chinese Medicine, which views nutrition as an important part of treatment. The idea is to have a positive effect on the body by omitting certain foods or by preparing them gently, e.g., as a digestive aid or weight loss.
Definition: What is nutritional therapy?
Nutritional therapy is a treatment that takes place either as an inpatient or as an outpatient in a suitable spa facility. The goal is a lasting change in diet to a healthier lifestyle.
Procedure and contents of a nutrition vacation
For the diet vacation as a medical measure apply legal requirements with dietary recommendations, which are often also combined with a diet, fasting retreat, dietary change or with a fitness program.
There are conditions that require a complete change in eating habits, while the nutrition therapy can be used just as for pure weight reduction. The main goal is to achieve improvement of your health and at the same time to establish with you a dietary strategy suitable for everyday life, which you will maintain after the healing therapies. Therapy according to nutritional medicine includes avoiding problematic foods, determining appropriate foods in the right amounts, ensuring a supply of vitamins and important vital substances and reducing calorie intake.
The DGE (German Society for Nutrition) provides a guideline for clinics for nutrition therapy, as a new orientation guide for care after nutritional medicine.
Indications & contraindications for nutrition therapy
Indications
Adiposity
Adiposity is the medical term for severe overweight, whereby the body accumulates excessive fat tissue. With a reduced-calorie diet and a change in diet, weight problems can be gradually corrected within therapy. Part of the treatment is a specific diet.
Diabetes
Metabolic diseases such as diabetes mellitus need a complete change in diet with professional nutrition counseling. In the process, deficiencies are compensated, long-term secondary diseases are prevented, blood values are normalized and the quality of life is improved.
Gastrointestinal diseases
Gastrointestinal diseases can also be treated with nutritional therapy. This involves regularly preparing smaller meals that do not strain the intestines. Food is prepared in such a way that it has a digestive effect and avoids substances that cause irritable stomach.
Contraindications and side effects
There are no side effects or risks associated with nutritional therapy, as the program is individually tailored. Rather, the change and diet under therapeutic guidance serves to prevent an exacerbation of the condition. Nutrition therapy can also be used preventively.
You will receive individual nutrition counseling and a nutritional plan tailored to your needs from nutritionists to eliminate deficiencies and side effects.
The healing therapies are oriented to the existing health problems. Many spa hotels and facilities also offer cooking classes, food science classes and a substantial fitness and exercise program.
These spa facilities and spa hotels await you on a nutrition vacation
A professional nutrition therapy can be implemented in spa hotels, resorts, clinics and rehabilitation centers. A nutritional holiday in a beautiful setting by the sea, in the mountains, in a 5-star hotel with an all-inclusive offer or in a spa facility specializing in therapy is particularly lovely.
Many facilities offer a comprehensive program with wellness, fitness, pool, sauna and spa, plus restaurants and buffets tailored to the therapeutic treatments in half or full board. In vacation regions, the diet can be combined with an exercise regime, e.g. by swimming, mountaineering, cycling, skiing or hiking.
Suitable destinations for a diet retreat
As a vacation, you can plan dietetics relaxing in many destinations in Germany. So there are in Bavaria and in the Black Forest a variety of spa hotels, which offer the Alpine view and with sauna, wellness, the intermittent fasting or a enjoyable weight loss week implement the nutritional therapy.
Poland is a recommendation at the Polish Baltic Sea, where the tides unfold their wonderful spectacle as well as long dune walks in the fresh air and a bathing vacation are possible. There are thermal baths, nature and spa parks and resorts specialized in dietary nutrition directly on the Baltic Sea, with a quiet location, pool and wellness facilities.
In sunny Spain, accommodation in wellness hotels directly by the sea is possible to combine therapy with bathing fun. Hotels and health centers offer thalassotherapy for weight loss and nutritional treatment under medical supervision. Holistic approaches are offered as Ayurveda, for example, near Malaga or in Tenerife.
FAQ - Frequently asked questions about a nutrition trip
The dietetics is an encroachment for known nutritional teachings, which are used in a therapy and healing therapies. These include, for example, vegetarianism, whole food nutrition, separation diet, nutrition according to the five elements or macrobiotics.
Losing weight on vacation is especially easy in a beautiful and relaxing environment. Benefits are offered by the healing therapies through health promotion, personal nutritional counseling, individual recommendations and dietary changes for certain diseases to boost the healing process. Also, a goal can be better defined here, which can be better pursued by patients. Some of our healing therapies and hotel partners are DGE (German Society for Nutrition) certified and accordingly, particularly target.
Customary is a therapeutic stay in clinics, resorts and spa hotels for about three weeks. According to need and medical necessity, the vacation can be extended.