What is Nutritional Therapy

Nutritional Therapy is the application of nutrition, naturopathic principles and health sciences, to enable individuals to maximise their health potential and to minimise or prevent health challenges. We do this by altering the external & internal environment of the individual through diet, food supplements, detoxification, lifestyle and education. This creates an environment in which the body can start to heal itself. Nutritional Therapy is a complementary therapy in that therapists like to work synergistically with other health professionals.

Nutritional Therapy can be categorised as an individualised nutritional programme worked out specifically for the person concerned, incorporating the physical, mental & emotional aspects of a person. Their lifestyle is also taken into account as are existing disease conditions. A detailed history of the person is taken, including health problems of family members if applicable. A detailed list of all foods eaten over 1 week, inclusive of all drinks, treats etc is taken as this list is of paramount importance.

All the programs include targeted supplementation of the necessary nutrients needed to help change the internal environment of the person. Nutritional therapy can help with most aspects of the mind and body as everybody is lacking in some form of nutrition because of our Westernised processed diets. Natural raw food is no longer in vogue hence the advent of appalling diseases which were unheard of or extremely rare 100-200 years ago.

History of Nutritional Therapy

Doctors in the USA, Europe & Australia recognised this huge problem early in the 1900’s and have developed Nutritional Therapy which is well established in these countries. In his very popular book New Optimum Nutrition Bible Dr Patrick Holford wrote and I quote;
“The optimum nutrition approach is not new: many great visionaries have embraced it. In 390BC Hippocrates said “Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food.” Edison in the early twentieth century said, “The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and the cause and prevention of disease.”

Dr Holford goes on further to state that Dr Linus Pauling who had 48 PhDs and two unshared Nobel prizes stated that by giving the body the right molecules most disease would be eradicated and optimum nutrition is the medicine of tomorrow. Dr Pauling died in 1994. He also has been voted as the 2nd most important scientist of the 20th century!

PROGRAMMS
My programmes run for about 3 months as this is the time it takes the body to repair cells and to effect change. It will always work if the person is dedicated and willing to try. Detoxification will occur at the beginning of the programme but this depends on the person and how healthy they are. Bad habits have to be broken and new ones established. Some positive change for the better, will occur, even if the therapy is not totally embraced, if correct targeted supplements are used.

I teach people to:

• Manipulate their own diets within the correct food groups within their popular food choices if possible. Some people eat appallingly! Change where necessary.
• Help them to recognise their bad habits through education
• Explain what the targeted nutrients do
• Encourage them to eat new foods not previously tasted and to be adventurous
• Encourage the eating of some raw foods every day
• Give ideas to menu planning
• Recognise possible deficiencies
• Referrals to the relevant medical or alternative expert

And a whole lot more………..

I am able to advise people in pre & post op nutrition to help the body prepare & then heal after surgery; preconception & post conception care and nutritional care in over 70 disease conditions which encompasses the A-Z of health problems.  Learning difficulties, IgG food allergies, rotation diets, Altzheimers Disease even cancers can all be approached nutritionally as can auto immune diseases, autism, diabetes, hypoglycaemia, heart problems etc ….. 

Prevention is better than cure
Start to eat healthily, before rather than after, the above occurs.

My Specialities

• Food Allergies & Intolerances, and the manipulation of the diet  around these
• Pre diabetes and diabetes, hypoglycaemia and low GL/GI eating
• General eating plans for families- improve bad habits learnt by kids from their parents who learnt from their parents and so on down the line!
• Fibromyalgia & ME
• Arthritis
• Learning Difficulties.  
• General good eating to beat common conditions

20 years school teaching experience enables me to:

• Tailor make lectures to relevant age groups.
• Present Powerpoint Presentations to large (groups) or small groups.
• Corporate workshops/days.