Advances in medicine are usually associated with a new drug, surgical procedure or complicated diagnostics tests. However, the greatest medical breakthrough of the 21st century is the discovery that lifestyle, and particularly diet, has a greater impact on our health, wellbeing and longevity than any other factor.

The latest evidence shows that comprehensive dietary change can not only prevent but also halt and reverse numerous conditions, including some that have so far been regarded as incurable.

It has been proven that an appropriate diet can: reverse even the most advanced atherosclerosis; lower cholesterol as effectively as first generation statins with no side effects; reverse insulin resistance underlying type 2 diabetes; and normalize blood pressure in people suffering from hypertension.  Nutritional change can also significantly reduce symptoms in rheumatic conditions and improve  survival rates in people with certain cancers such as breast, prostate or colon cancers. 

The latest nutritional approach, nutritional medicine, also known as lifestyle medicine, has evolved from the results of longitudinal epidemiological studies and experimental clinical trials and targets the very mechanisms underlying disease – dealing with the cause and not only the symptoms of the problem (causative therapy as opposed to symptomatic treatment). 

Carolina Medical Centre opens the first Center of Nutritional Medicine in Poland, where, under the supervision of a team with nutritional medicine and dietetics specialists, the patients will be able to undergo nutritional therapy programs for circulatory diseases, diabetes, obesity, rheumatoid conditions, as well as individual nutrition consultations targeting numerous other conditions.

Through stomach to a healthy heart

As early as January 2011 CMC will offer a comprehensive program of reversing atherosclerosis, based on the Dr Ornish’s Heart Disease Reversal Program, offered in only several hospitals in the US.  Most recently, the former US president, Bill Clinton has tested the effectiveness of this program himself.