The one-step informational system for health: How to encourage your patients to use nutritional supplements

An open letter to medical doctors, chiropractors and naturopaths from Dr. Gerred Popejoy, D.C., Q.M.E.

Dear Healthcare Professional,

Why do we still use outdated, inefficient ways to sell nutrition to our patients? Why are we still required to stock and retail nutritional products? Why are we spending time to physically show and sell products to patients which takes up our attention from what we do best? Why do patients stop using products when they stop seeing their doctor? Why would your nutritional income stop when you retire or become disabled? Doctors have stopped recommending nutrition because of these reasons, and they, at times, feel like a sales person, not a doctor. I know I did.

Then why are the latest journals and practice management consultants telling us to add nutrition into our practices? Maybe nutrition should be a part of our patients' daily healthcare, and as their doctor, you should be making those recommendations. Maybe they know you can create a new profit center in your office.

Problem #1 – Nutritional companies sell us products to stock and sell at retail.

Problem #2 – They don't provide us with any program to efficiently make recommendations.

For over twenty years, I have been asking when they are going to correct these problems. In 2001, I found an international nutritional company based in Batesville, Arkansas, with a history of selling quality products to doctors since 1936. Since 1992, patients have been able to order directly with a 30-day money-back guarantee; this solved the problem of carrying products. After two years making recommendations to my patients without carrying products, I still was left with a problem. How could I make a nutritional recommendation in less time than it took to write a prescription with all the necessary information to my patients? I spent the next five years creating and testing a new program to solve this problem.

The One-Step Nutritional Information System allows you as a healthcare professional to integrate nutrition into your practice with an uncomplicated, simple delivery system of customized nutritional information sheets in over 20 areas: daily nutrition, whiplash, DJD, fibromyalgia, weight loss, anti-aging, etc. The sheets are available in five languages — English, Spanish, Russian, Vietnamese, and Japanese — on CD at no cost to you. There is the added benefit of a financial return, or not if you choose, without carrying products.

Now, with the One-Step System and a nutritional company with great products standing behind you, you can create a new profit center in your office. I want you to take this opportunity to try the One-Step Nutritional Information System in your office before you make a final decision.

We can provide your office with a complete nutritional program. Email Dr. Ross at david@drdavidross.com. You also will receive a DVD for your waiting room on nutrition and the products.

I’m sure you will have some questions on how to get started, so please call.

Sincerely,


Gerred L. Popejoy, D.C., Q.M.E.
Director of Healthcare Integrative Professionals International

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FDA warns of salmonella outbreak in red tomatoes

For a tomato lover like me, this is terrible news. Luckily, my patio tomatoes are just beginning to produce.

A nationwide salmonella outbreak prompted the Food and Drug Administration to issue a news release Saturday warning consumers not to eat certain types of red tomatoes.

According to the release, since mid-April, 145 cases of salmonella poisoning have been reported in 16 states.

Consumers are urged not to eat red plum, red Roma, red round tomatoes, or any products that might contain them. Cherry tomatoes, grape tomatoes, and tomatoes sold with the vine still attached are safe to eat. Tomatoes that are home-grown are also safe to eat.

Salmonella poisoning can be fatal. Symptoms include fever, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain.

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Moderate alcohol consumption reduces chance of arthritis

People who consume a moderate amount of alcohol have 40-45% less chance of developing rheumatoid arthritis, a Scandanavian study reported yesterday.

Even more startling, those who consume high amounts of alcohol have upwards of 55% less chance of developing the disease.

The chief author of the study, Henrik Kaellberg of the Institute of Environmental Medicine at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, notes that previous research suggests alcohol interferes with inflammatory processes that trigger heart disease.

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