Eat right for health

BOULDER — With doctors nationally estimating that 75 percent of all diseases are related to diet and exercise, it’s no surprise that they recommend healthy lifestyles — lots of fruits and vegetables and moderate exercise.

Locally, several doctors and nutritionists are focused specifically on wellness through nutrition.

Boulderite Shira Souvignier went to her doctor, Jill Carnahan, for help in figuring out a way to deal with acid reflux, or gastroesophageal reflux disease, in which a patient commonly gets heartburn and other symptoms.

Souvignier said that because her father for years had been taking Prilosec, a drug to combat acid reflux, she was worried…