Measuring and Tracking Optimal Health
When you begin any program to help yourself live better, how do you know if you are actually improving? There are standardized fitness testing procedures that health clubs can do for you that will pinpoint physical fitness weaknesses you may have and will also track improvements in your fitness level as your program continues.
What do you use to gage improvement in nutrition? This becomes more involved and more complicated because, as we have said before, the lack of pain does not mean you are living optimally. However, the lack of pain and the lack of other symptoms does indicate something. It indicates you do not have pain. Well, okay, but it does not indicate you are optimal. There may be many things you can do to help yourself even though you do not have pain.
In order to help yourself, you need to know how you are living right now. To do this, you would need to record your lifestyles and your knowledge base. A series of questionnaires will serve nicely to measure your behaviours and some of your beliefs and knowledge. The changes in your beliefs and knowledge, and particularly the changes in your actual behaviours, can be tracked and used as an indicator as to how OPTIMALLY you are living. This questionnaire program consists of thirty questionnaires dealing with many aspects of your nutrition, your lifestyles, and some clinical measurements.
In addition to these questionnaires, you will want to know your Bowel Transit Time. You will want to fill out a weekly diet survey of everything you eat and drink. You will want to screen your present nutritional supplementation intake for adequacy and efficacy, and you will want to review a week’s grocery receipt list for hidden poisons.
Each questionnaire is graded out of 100 percent. Retaking the questionnaire program will allow you to see the changes in your health and knowledge. This will be a good indicator if you are improving and can be used to indicate if a particular product is effective.
Documenting Improvement
This Questionnaire Program will help to document your present status of health and your level of knowledge. It will help track your improvement and allow clinicians to tailor advice specifically to you. The improving numbers on successive tests will be used to motivate you to carry on as you will be able to see the results improve as each test is taken.
The List of Questionnaires
The purpose of this questionnaire program is to measure your state of Nutritional Optimal Health & Wellness. As you change things in your lifestyle, tracking your improvement will help you identify if your health care is on target. These questions are based on clinical experience and generally accepted norms.
Clinical Screenings are ways to discover problems that may be hidden. These screenings impact on nutrition and may indicate the need for a higher amount of antioxidants in the diet. These screenings are not for the purpose of diagnosing any disease processes. Questionnaire results are not used to formulate any nutritional supplements for you or to customize vitamin or herbal formulations. They are used to grade and track the type of lifestyle that you are living right now. Recommendations are then given to help you improve.
Your privacy is protected through the use of a secret code name that identifies you and your Lifestyle Instruction Aid (LIA) instructor. All documents use this code name only.
This particular program deals with prevention and Optimal Health & Wellness. If you think you have a disease condition, then please visit a health care provider licenced to make a diagnosis. Chiropractors and medical doctors are two good choices.
Copyright 1999 by Dr. Victor Jean Ouellette All Rights Reserved
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