Nutrition is a topic often overlooked in the early days of recovery. Patients need all the help they can get when learning how to cope without drugs and alcohol.

Nutrition is not necessarily at the top of the list at treatment programs. However, studies, as well as experience, shows that a healthy diet is absolutely essential to healing the damage done in active addiction.

When someone throws in the towel on addiction, the high cost of low living can manifest itself in many ways. Patients arrive to treatment malnourished, underweight, pale. The addictive substances indulged have affected metabolism, brain function and mental well-being.

It’s different for each drug as well but almost all can be repaired in time.

To live a normal healthy life, a healthy balanced diet is essential. Same goes for substance and alcohol abuse.

It’s critical to eat properly always and when the body is healing from a bout with substance abuse nutrition can make all the difference.

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Regular Meals Are Important

A person with substance abuse is more likely to relapse when they are malnourished. This is why regular meals are important. Some research suggest drug and alcohol addiction causes a person to forget what it is like to be hungry and they may crave drugs instead of proper food. For treatment of patients with memory loss you should include these 6 foods in the diet;

  • Eat leafy green vegetables
  • Salmon and other cold-water fish
  • Berries and dark-skinned fruits
  • Coffee and chocolate
  • Extra virgin olive oil
  • Cold-pressed virgin coconut oil