Restoring Lifestyle Balance

Counselors and therapists need to develop continuing-care and posttreatment plans with lifestyle balance in mind. Make sure you suggest to clients how to provide for a more balanced lifestyle in these plans. First, make an assessment in the 

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Dumping calcium and other substances from the bones might be a relatively harmless mechanism if it is rarely used, but it is not a sustainable approach to blood pH balance over the long term. Yet because of poor dietary and lifestyle patterns, that is precisely what most people are forcing their bodies to do. Balance may be restored to the blood, but it comes at a high cost weakened bones and a suppressed capacity for additional bone formation. So it is no surprise that the incidence of bone-demineralizing diseases such as osteoporosis are on the rise. (You ll leam more about this tragic disorder in the next chapter.)... 

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