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A Case of Double Infertility
by June Butlin
June Butlin describes the nutritional therapy undertaken by a couple trying to conceive who were devastated by the news that they were both infertile, the male partner having a low sperm count with poor sperm formation and motility, and his wife having severe endometriosis in the ovaries and fallopian tubes, which required a laparotomy operation.
A Case of Otitis Media
by June Butlin
Otitis media, inflammation and infection of the middle ear, is common in young children. Its many possible causes, including food allergies and lack of breast-feeding as babies, are outlined and its often ineffective or unnecessary treatment with antibiotics or surgery is highlighted.
A Common Dietary Problem: Inadequate Protein and Fats
by Judith Price
Judith Price, a nutritionist also trained in hypnotherapy, describes the nutritional and dietary treatment given to a lady suffering from depression, fatigue, hormonal imbalance and irritable bowel syndrome largely due to inadequate protein and fats, which completely transformed not only her physical symptoms but also her appearance and outlook.
A Good Beginning
by June Butlin
Michael is a lively, sensitive, impulsive, verbally adept thirteen-year-old of high intelligence with a wide general knowledge that would put many adults to shame. However, he is severely underachieving at school and at times his behaviour is inappropriate.
A Guide to Supplementation within Health and Complementary Medicine
by Dr DF Smallbone
In the best of all possible worlds, supplementation is not necessary. Unfortunately, we do not live in the best of all possible worlds.
A Healthy Liver and Weight Loss
by Dr Sandra Cabot
The liver has everything to do with how we live – that's why it is called the "liver". The state of your liver will have a huge bearing upon how well you live, how long you will live and how you will look and feel.
Acid-Base Balance: Indispensable for Our Metabolism
by Dr Helga Handschuh
A highly technical account of the operation of acids and bases within our digestive and metabolic processes. Of particular interest is the indicated link between acid overload of the connective tissues (which function as temporary storage places for acid, but become rigid and swollen when overload continues over a long period) and several chronic illnesses.
ADD or Iodine Deprivation?
by Kate Neil
Nutritionist Kate Neil relates the story of a 65-year-old woman who wished to improve her mental function, suspecting that she was suffering from attention deficit disorder (ADD).
Algae: the History of Life Back for the Future
by David Howell
Could our future well-being be as inextricably dependent upon a primitive organism as surely as our remotest past has been? All the evidence suggests that it is.
An Anti-Inflammatory Diet - The Antidote to Pain
by Jesse Cannone
We all suffer with inflammation to some degree, says the author of this article, but over time a build up of problems can cause it to flare up and cause pain. What we eat is ultimately a very important factor on our inflammation levels, but activity levels, quality of sleep and stress can also have an impact.
An Holistic Nutritional Programme for Hepatitis
by Dr Sandra Cabot
Hepatitis is a general term used to describe inflammation of the liver. This means that there are too many inflammatory chemicals being produced and released in the liver which damages the liver cells (hepatocytes). The article outlines the dietary techniques that can be used to strengthen the liver and help it to overcome all forms of hepatitis.
Antibiotic Treatment - Protection and Recovery
by Nicki Woodward
In this column the author says that although as holistic practitioners in the modern world, we often have to accept that antibiotics play an unavoidable but often valuable role in the treatment of disease, we are still able to support clients who have undergone such treatment and, therefore, our role can be equally as valuable.
Bee Products, Properties and Applications
by Professor Avshalom Mizrahi
One of the most applicable groups of natural products, used by human beings from ancient times, are bee products.
Benefits of Fresh Juices
by Samm Kweku Richardson
Fruit juices stir up and flush out accumulated toxins. Their concentrated natural sugars bring about vital energy and speed up the eliminative process. Vegetable juices provide the important elements for rebuilding healthy blood, bones and tissues.
Bio Resonance Therapy for Parasites
by Rheinhold Will
Parasites are normally overlooked in modern medicine when it comes to treating acute and chronic disorders.
Bone Building Nutrition - Calcium Not the Only Key
by Mark James Tallon
Bones are truly amazing structures that mend and rebuild themselves by the actions of two cells types – osteoblasts that form bone and osteoclasts that resorb (destroy) bone. This continual process of breakdown and renewal is also known as bone turnover. Dr Mark Tallon presents the facts and fallacies about calcium supplementation, traditional medicine and new clinically validated dietary solutions to healthier bones.
Boron: Major Cause and Cure for Arthritis
by Rex E Newnham
Forty years ago, Dr Rex Newnham developed arthritis and orthodox medicine did not help. His analysis of the differences between the fertility of clay soil and sandy soil (sandy soil showed mineral deficiencies) led him to look at the connection between mineral deficiencies and arthritis. One of the minerals deficient in the soil was boron, which is needed in the green plant for proper usage of calcium.
Budwig Flax Oil Diet
by Chris Turner
Science has proven that fats play an important role in the functioning of the entire body. To function efficiently, cells require true polyunsaturated, live electron-rich lipids, present in abundance in raw flaxseed oil.
Chocolate - Food Of The Gods
by Alan Luke and Jacquie Durand
This article focuses on chocolate, the food of the gods, which the author says is good for one’s cardiovascular system and may even protect one’s body cells from degenerative disorders.
Clinical Properties of Deer Velvet
by James M Suttie, Ph.D. and Stephen Harris, Ph.D.
Deer velvet has been known to be beneficial for health for more than 2000 years. Silk scrolls found in a Chinese tomb in 168BC clearly documented deer velvet as a part of the Chinese medical pharmacopoeia.
Colour Coding Your Diet
by Lauryn McGuiness
This article focuses on the importance of colour coding our diet, which the author says is the healthiest way to eat as it is colour that determines food’s beneficial qualities more so than ‘type’.
Dead Soils/ Dead Foods
by Debbie Stoton
It may seem unlikely that Parkinson's disease, depression or attention deficit disorder could have one common contributing factor, but poor nutrition is at the root cause of many CNS ailments. The soils that our food is grown in are severely deficient in important trace elements. How can we possibly harvest healthy food from sick soil?
Diabetes Mellitus
by June Butlin
This article discusses the genetic, lifestyle and dietary causes of diabetes mellitus, which results from either a lack of insulin or the body's cells being resistant to it, and can lead to hypoglycaemia (low blood glucose levels) or hyperglycaemia (high blood glucose levels) respectively. Only about 10% of diabetics are insulin-dependent; the remaining 90% suffer from non-insulin-dependent or adult onset diabetes and this can usually be controlled by diet alone.
Dietary Recommendations to Reduce Heart Disease Risk
by Sandra Goodman PhD
An extract from the book Genetic Nutritioneering
Dieting - A Recipe for Failure
by Peter Cohen
Dieting, like conventional medicine, works on the expectation of failure. Conventional medicine is designed to deal with ill health and it factors in a high drop out or death rate.
Drugs versus Nutritional Medicine for Common Health Complaints
by Jerome Burne
The author points out that although we would like to believe that drugs are developed, tested and prescribed on the basis of being the most effective for curing what is wrong with us, it isn’t quite like that.
Eat Correctly and Live Long
by Samm Kweku Richardson
This article focuses on why, how and what we should eat correctly, to live a long and healthy life. In order to enjoy the pleasures and profits which are possible in health, one must eat sensibly correct combinations of food…for we are really what we eat.
Eat Fat
by Richard Klein
This article was extracted from the book Eat Fat by Richard Klein
Essential Fatty Acids - in the Evolution of the Brain
by David E Marsh
This article challenges scientists long-held perceptions of evolutionary theory, explaining the function of essential fatty acids (EFAs), discussing their role in evolution and suggesting that many diseases today may the result of EFA deficiency.
Essential Fatty Acids, Diet and Developmental Disorders
by David Taylor
It has been estimated that between 5 and 10 percent of the population have behavioural difficulties,[1] with many youngsters so diagnosed displaying delayed language development, poor social skills and a lack of co-ordination. In this highly topical and well-referenced article, the author, a psychologist with a background in psychopharmacology and development, describes how Nutrition, particularly Omega-3 Essential Fatty Acids (EFAs), can play a major role in development and well-being.
EU Directives - Health Protection Double Speak
by Helen Fullerton
Helen Fullerton looks at three Directives that the EU is forcing through in the guise of consumer protection: the Food Supplements Directive, the Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products Directive and the Proposed Amendments to the Medicines Directive. She claims that this will have an effect on maximum dose levels and may exclude non-vitamin/mineral nutrients. This threatens the products of many specialist manufacturers and the consumer right to alternatives to drugs. Many people use supplements to protect themselves from disease.
Evolution of Nutritional and Pharmaceutical Science during the 20th Century
by Julia Pendower
This column is one in a series to focus on some of the 'ground breaking' discoveries today in the field of nutrition and health. Following ones will look at emerging sciences such as the field of nutrigenomics, and how these advances could revolutionize the role of the nutritional therapist in healthcare management in the years ahead.
Evolving Story of Vitamin D
by Michael Sellar
This article looks into the benefits and research history of Vitamin D which, the author says, isn't really a vitamin because it has to be metabolically activated before it can be made biologically active. This active form is called calctriol, the vitamin D receptor.
Fast Food, Obesity and Ill Health: The urgent need to shift from chemical-based to real foods
by Jane Lorimer
In this article on Obesity and Chronic Disease (CHD), the author, a McTimoney Chiropractor, authority on Candida and Wholefood Cookery says weight around the middle is a sign that the degenerative processes leading to heart disease and diabetes (Metabolic Syndrome) and cancer have really set in.
Fat Loss, NOT Weight Loss
by Peter Smith
This article will attempt to explain why most of what we have believed in the past about weight loss and dieting is built on false foundations. Nobody would deny that 'science' (knowledge/ learning) is growing all the time and that what we used to believe turns out not to be true, only to be replaced by something else that we then believe (know)…and so it goes on.
Fish Oil and Health
by Professor Tom Saldeen, MD, Ph.D.
Professor Tom Saldeen, MD, Ph.D. is Professor and Chairman at the Department of Forensic Medicine at the Medical facility of Uppsala, Sweden and one of the world's leading experts on the health benefits of fish oils.
Five Elements Nutrition
by Penny Crowther
This column follows on from previous ones on the ancient theory of five elements and how they can give the nutrition practitioner extra insight into their cases.
Folic Acid: A Matter of Common Sense?
by Linda Lazarides BA
Nutritional health expert Linda Lazarides questions why research into the deficiency of folic acid (a B Complex Vitamin), which causes devastating birth defects, is not resulting in more government action in the UK. Although pregnant women are now being prescribed folic acid supplements, due to pressure from some doctors, people with other problems caused by this deficiency are still at risk. She commends the American practice of fortifying bread with folic acid which she says could save countless lives in the UK and Scotland.
Food and Mood
by Amanda Geary
The current approach to mental health problems continues to favour the use of drug therapy and/or psychotherapy, yet more than 30 years of research1 provides convincing evidence for making a third option available to patients.
Food and Nutrition for Optimum Health
by Sandra Goodman PhD
The food that we eat exerts an extraordinarily potent influence upon our health and well-being at many levels – molecular, physiological, psychological and spiritual.
Food Intolerance and Chronic Illnesses
by John Graham and Mark Varey
Intolerance to food has been implicated in playing a role in a wide spectrum of chronic illnesses; however, much of the evidence gathered to date has been from anecdotal clinical case studies, rather than large patient research studies.
Food toxins, molecular mimicry, leaky gut and the MS connection.
by Lynn Toohey, Ph.D.
It has been accepted for a long time that several factors play a major role in MS. In fact, the multi-factorial involvement has contributed to the puzzle of determining the etiology of the disease.
Food Vitality - The Almost Neglected Ingredient for Health
by Wendy Cook
Wendy Cook looks at changes in attitudes toward Nutrition in the west, notably the move from creation to consumption of food products and a loss of understanding of how the natural world functions.
Foods for Free
by Anita Priddy
This article focuses on foods grown in the wild. The author touches on their health value, where they can be found, how to pick them and also how to eat them.
Georgia
by June Butlin
This case study illustrates how nutritional factors can affect not just physical well-being but also mental, emotional and behavioural patterns.
Glyconutrients - Quintessential Cell Communicators
by Gill Jacobs
This article focuses on glyconutrients and glycol-science, the study of carbohydrates/biological sugars and how they work. The author examines in depth the source of glyconutrients as well as questions how our body can support producing essential glyconutrients if it is capable of doing so.
Glyconutrients - The Missing Link?
by Peter Smith
The authors explain that, according to the newly emerging technology of glycobiology (the study of sugars), it could be glyconutrients (simple sugars), rather than proteins, that are responsible for cellular communication and cellular recognition.
Gout
by Vivienne Bradshaw-Black
Gout is often associated with the high life – rich food and alcohol – but, says the author, we should also be considering the genetic link. The condition is marked by pain and inflammation in the joints, muscles or fibrous tissues and is caused by monosodium urate crystal deposits in poorly hydrated, toxic, sluggish and malnourish tissues.
Hair Mineral Analysis
by Lawrence Wilson, MD
What is the best way to measure minerals in the body? Doctors often use blood tests. However, blood mineral levels are kept within a very tight range, even in many illnesses.
Healthy Food for Children
by Penny Crowther
Regular columnist Penny Crowther examines the results of a Mori poll (November 2002) that found that 200,000 children in England and Wales had eaten no fruit or vegetable in the past seven days. A report on school dinners by the Consumer's Association (October 2001) revealed that vitamins A and B2, folic acid, zinc, magnesium, calcium and potassium were commonly low in school children's diets. It also found that, although healthy options were available, pupils chose the unhealthy options that were still on the menu.
History of Oxygen Therapies
by Suzanne Hotston
The use of various forms of oxygen in medicine is by no means a new one. As far back as 1896 Nikola Tesla, the Croatian electrical engineer and inventor, patented an ozone generator[1] and many doctors achieved excellent treatment results with it, although The Tesla Ozone Company's equipment was far from perfect. Ozone, a gas one and a half times denser than oxygen, caused corrosion of the rubber tubing in Tesla's equipment and by the thirties, its use had almost ceased.[2]
Homocysteine - Your Most Vital Statistic
by Patrick Holford and Dr James Braly
Forget your blood pressure, your cholesterol, even your weight. There is one statistic that can determine better than any other, whether you will live long and healthy, or die young. It's called homocysteine.
How to Increase Your Energy Naturally
by Patrick Holford and Dr Hyla Cass
Shocking survey results have revealed that three-quarters of the city-dwelling population in the UK are suffering from low energy and waking up tired as a result of a high intake of stimulants such as tea, coffee, cigarettes and sugary foods. These offer short-term 'highs', but can be followed by huge energy drops, food and stimulant cravings, uneven weight, stress and illness. Such over-stimulation adversely affects the body's sensitive balance of blood sugar, hormones and neurotransmitters and can lead to adrenal overload and eventually burn-out.
How to Maintain Glucose Levels
by Marilyn Glenville, Ph.D.
Almost all dieters have an underlying blood sugar imbalance. Blood sugar can be the most important factor in losing and maintaining a healthy weight. The importance of correcting blood sugar fluctuations to lose weight is emphasised by the title of an article published in the Encyclopaedia of Common Diseases written by the staff of Prevention Magazine; 'Low Blood Sugar Can Make You Fat'.
How to Reverse Hair Loss
by Vera Peiffer
The author began going bald at the age of 14 and then lost all her body hair as well. It was not until 30 years later, when she was training to be a kinesiologist that she found the answer to alopecia in this technique using her arm muscle as biofeedback.
Implications of Molecules in Emotion
by June Butlin
In nearly three decades of working in the area of wellness I have never found one health discipline that has all the answers for healing.
Importance of our Internal Environment
by Dominic Speirs
In this article, the author explains the importance of pH balance and blood cells on the health of the body and their function.
Insulin: The Hormone That Makes You Fat
by Dr Robert C Atkins
Dr Robert Atkins' article is an extract from his book New Diet Revolution (Vermilion 1999) in which he discusses the hormone insulin and the role it plays in energy production, weight gain, and it's part in health disorders such as diabetes and hypoglycemia.
Juicing for Health
by Kerry Doyle
Kerry Doyle is qualified in Nutrition and Health and in Clinical and Holistic Aromatherapy. She is a distributor for Organic Essential Oils and Aromatology products. In this article she looks at the advantages of Juicing, the daily consumption of fresh fruit and vegetable juices. To do this she looks in detail at the case of a friend whose daily juicing has led to major changes in his health and lifestyle including a two stone loss in weight.
Kombucha Tea Therapy
by Alick & Mari Bartholomew
Kombucha has proved itself to be a quite remarkable therapeutic drink, made from sweetened tea into which a Kombucha culture (a symbiosis of bacteria and yeasts) is placed.
Living Foods - The Optimum in Natural Nutrition
by Elaine Bruce
Living Foods is a phrase increasingly used in therapeutic circles as well as by nutrition conscious people, to indicate the use of plant foods to obtain a superior level of natural nutrients.
Low-Carb Diets
by Stephen Byrnes
This topical article explodes many of the myths surrounding low-carbohydrate diets and provides heavily referenced evidence of how these diets can provide a more effective and often healthier option to the low-fat diets often preferred by those wishing to lose weight. The author emphasizes that this form of nutrition is not just a ‘craze’, but is a true phenomenon, encompassing many theories and gives detailed outlines of various low-carb approaches.
Macrobiotics for Optimal Balance
by Vivien Ryder
Macrobiotics, meaning great (or long) life, is a diet that seeks to achieve balance, harmony and healing and is based on the philosophy that everything is made up of two opposing forces - yin and yang - in varying degrees, and that these create a natural order to all things.
Mad Man Disease or the Nut Case
by Joel Carbonnel
When the BSE scandal was first disclosed, many were rightly shocked to hear that cows had been fed on a flesh diet; that, in other words, herbivores have been turned into carnivores. It's not the first time, however, that a species has been forced to drift away from its normal nutritional behaviour.
Metabolic Typing - Part 1
by June Butlin
Body typing focuses on such factors as the personality, appearance and biochemistry of the client rather than on the disease to determine specific body type and make nutritional and lifestyle recommendations to prevent disease and achieve health.
Metabolic Typing: A Highly Individualized, Fine-Tuned Nutritional Guideline
by Dr Rohsmann MD
This article looks at why certain diets and nutritional guidelines work on some people and not others.
Micro-element Therapy and Mineral Imbalances - A Practitioner's Case Studies
by Maya Kraus
As a therapist, I have used Micro-element Therapy (MET) for some 12 years and never cease to be amazed at its effect. This paper aims to give an outline of how it works in practice for myself and other therapists, as well as its development.
Natural Approaches to Gallstones
by Janet Bevan
Four Christmases ago as I was drinking a glass of cream liqueur, I experienced a violent burning pain in my right side. It was bad enough to leave me doubled up on the sofa.
Natural Weight-loss Supplements:
by Mark Brudnak, Ph.D. ND
As the problem of obesity continues to increase in the Western world, pharmaceutical companies have responded by developing weight-loss drugs that target certain biochemical pathways involved in the production of fat. However, many of these drugs have been found to have certain dangerous side effects, and have since been withdrawn.
Neonatal Sensitisation to Latex
by Jennifer Worth
Babies born in delivery rooms of hospitals are exposed to latex through skin and mucous membrane contact with pre-powdered latex gloves worn by midwives and doctors, and through the inhalation of latex bound starch powder in the air of the delivery room.
Noni: Nature's Health-Enhancing Fruit
by Dr N Solomon
Known as Noni in Hawaii, the plant was brought to Polynesia from the East by migrating settlers and has been used by the people of Polynesia to treat a wide variety of health disorders for over 2000 years.
Not Just A Load Of Old Bones
by Linda Lazarides BA
This article focuses on recent research on Vitamin D, which suggests that it could be the key to food intolerances. It has been estimated that at least 30% of all patients who consult a family doctor suffer from symptoms of food intolerance, ranging from chronic sinusitis, glue ear, asthma, headaches, ADHD (hyperactivity), water retention and eczema, to arthritis (osteo- and rheumatoid) chronic fatigue, irritable bowel syndrome and colitis.
Nourishing Women through Menopause and Beyond
by Susun S Weed
The Wise Woman tradition of healing is not new, and is based on nourishing and tonifying women through the menopause rather than aiming to fix them, balance them, affect their hormones or sedate their symptoms. It views the menopause as a positive rather than a negative event.
Nutrition and Age-Related Hearing Loss
by Linda Lazarides BA
Age-related hearing loss is the leading cause of deafness in the world, with 40% of elderly people affected. Linda Lazarides poses the question: is the loss of functions an inevitable part of ageing, especially when there is increasing scientific evidence that the diet has a big part to play?
Nutrition and Herbal Medicine to Survive Long-Haul Flights
by Stephen Terrass
Whether for business or holidays, we can either experience long-haul travel as an exciting adventure, or as a price we pay for our sins.
Nutrition and Stress
by June Butlin
In her column this month June Butlin looks at stress. In the first half of the article she reviews the mechanisms of the "fight or flight" response. In the second half she looks at nutritional strategies that can be used to reduce the detrimental physical effects of stress.
Nutrition and the Brain
by Charles T Krebs PhD
Most people have heard about nutritional deficiencies, that is, not having enough of a specific nutrient or nutrients in your diet, but are not always sure what this really means, or how you get this problem. This article looks at nutritional deficiencies in relation to the brain.
Nutrition for Asthma
by Penny Crowther
Asthma is on the increase, and yet many doctors do not recognize the benefits of Nutritional Therapy in its treatment. Penny Crowther highlights the negative side effects of conventional drug treatments for asthma before presenting a detailed case study to illustrate how effective nutritional therapy can be.
Nutrition for Children and Young Adults
by June Butlin
Quality nutrition is very important for children's health, as it is likely to result in good eating patterns in later life, and is essential for optimum growth and development.
Nutrition in Health Versus Healing
by Vivienne Bradshaw-Black
In this column on nutritional requirements for health and healing, the author looks at what is needed for maintaining health and promoting healing, and how nutrition is distributed throughout the body.
Nutritional Approaches to Liver Detoxification
by Helen Kimber
The liver is the most hard-working organ in the human body. It performs many functions that are vital to life. It plays an important role in digestion (breaking nutrients down) and assimilation (building up body tissues).
Nutritional Benefits of Whole Grain Wheat
by Lucette Skidmore
The author is a nutritionist, linguist and professional cook. She has now put her knowledge and experience into a book, Wheat dishes de Savor, where de Savor is her trade mark.
Nutritional Support for Children with Autism
by Kate Neil
Regular contributor, Kate Neil, looks at the link between autism in children and nutrition. Autism rates in Britain have risen dramatically over the last 20 years, and 1 in 500 children in the UK is now diagnosed with the condition.
Omega-3 Fatty Acids and Depressive Disorders
by Dr Alan C Logan
This article focuses on the effectiveness of omega-3 fatty acids and fish consumption on depressive disorder, based on studies carried out in the UK and US.
One Indian's View of Diet – How Food Habits Can Make or Break a Person
by CSVR Murthy
The author begins with a declaration based on Indian lore: a fellow eating once a day is a Yogi, twice a day is a Bogi, three times a day is a Drohi. He then explains that a yogi leads a calm life with composure in pleasures and adversities. A Bogi enjoys a life of sensual pleasures. A Drohi deceives and abuses his body by eating to excess.
Optimum Nutrition for Babies
by June Butlin
I believe that optimum nutrition is essential in maintaining optimum health. It is vital to our lives as our bodies have been completely built and maintained by the foods that we eat, the water we drink, and the air we breathe.
Ozone Therapy
by Mark G. Lester
Whilst Oxygen therapy is an umbrella term for over 50 different methods that all seek to de-toxify the body by flooding it with oxygen, Ozone therapy is the most researched and widely used medical technique for achieving this goal.
Pain and Inflammation
by June Butlin
Although pain and inflammation are important life processes – pain warns that something is wrong, and inflammation is a protective mechanism that allows healing to take place – in excess they can be very debilitating mentally and physically.
Perseverance and Endurance in Nutritional Therapy
by June Butlin
One of the fundamental principles of optimum nutrition is a time delay in the healing process. Nutrients in the form of foods, supplements and herbs do not produce an instant overnight result, as do some drugs.
Phytoestrogens Re-Examined
by Kate Neil
Phytoestrogens are plant compounds that are able to mimic the action of steroidal oestrogen in the body, the dominant form in the human diet being flavonoids, which can be divided into seven types.
Prevention or Cure: What's the Problem with Milk?
by David Taylor
The author looks at milk and why, like other white dietary products – salt, sugar, white flour, white rice, and white pasta – it should be excluded from our diet. He explains that current research has linked Insulin-like Growth Factor (IGF), found in milk, to prostate cancer, pre-menopausal breast cancer and colon cancer, despite arguments that the increased risks of contracting these cancers may be programmed from early life. Authors like Professor Jane Plant, however, argue that all dairy should be cut from the diet entirely.
Psychocreative Fasting and The Art of Inner Medicine
by Patrick Lee-Howard
It isn’t everyone who will prescribe a fast for a person with PMT, diabetes, a bad heart, or cancer, still less perhaps someone with an eating disorder. Most people will tend to think of a fast as an occasional detoxing tonic; others believe that fasting should be carried out only under the supervision of a qualified doctor.
Q10 - The Provider of Life
by Ann Crowther
This column focuses on Ubiquinone Q10, a naturally occurring substance and a necessary part of the cells’ energy metabolism, without which the cells cannot produce the energy that is needed for the multitude of activities that take place within the body.
Regenerate and Revitalise
by June Butlin
Summer is a wonderful time of the year when nature flourishes and life seems brighter, more colourful, and full of vitality. A newness evolves and we naturally focus on our surroundings; cobwebs are dusted away, houses are redecorated, gardens are landscaped and plants are grown to enhance natural beauty.
Salt - Its Many Therapeutic Wonders
by Mr Amir
Although salt has been “medically long prized as a stimulant, antiseptic and much else, salt has lost out to the pharmaceutical industry, I would suggest at our peril”. Dr Amir has noticed an exponential increase in poor oral health among even fastidious patients. He explains that a medical tenet is that the benign bacteria that reside on our skin, in our mouth and in our alimentary and uterine canals should not be disturbed. Yet they are being killed or mutated by the powerful bacteriostats and bactericides in modern toothpastes. He lists a number of easily performed tests to indicate whether toothpastes are causing problems.
Schizophrenia and Nutrition
by June Butlin
Schizophrenia is a psychotic condition that affects 1% of people from every culture, and the lifetime severity is worse in developed countries.
Selection and Use of Whole Grains
by Yvonne Leahy
This article describes evidence-based health benefits of consuming whole grain foods. It offers practical tips for incorporating more whole grains into existing diets. The relationship between dietary fibre and whole grains is explained. Comparisons between and among whole and refined grains are addressed. The topic of carbohydrate digestion, food package labelling and consumer education, related to whole grains, is discussed.
Soil Minerals and Immune System Dysfunction
by David E Marsh
Citing research throughout, this article highlights the alarming consequences of soil mineral depletion as a result of inorganic, high-input/high-output agriculture, both for the quality of our food and for our general health.
Spirulina: Health Discoveries from the Source of Life
by Robert Henrikson
We're undergoing a health revolution. As more people take responsibility for their own health, the demand for natural foods, herbal medicines and nutraceuticals is growing dramatically. Among these are the ancient algae spirulina and chlorella.
Stress, Diet and Body Acidification
by Nicki Woodward
This column focuses on optimal health created by a good pH balance- between the acid and alkaline in the body.
Tempeh - Soy's Super Food
by Monique N. Gilbert PhD
Tempeh is a fermented soybean product, made from cracked, cooked soybeans and inoculated with healthy bacteria, which give it a chewy, meaty consistency. The author highlights the reasons why Tempeh is such a super food.
The 10-Day Re-Balance Programme
by Jon Sandifer
The key to the success of this unique programme is the recovery of our intuition. Something that we are born with and its quality is largely dependent on our daily health.
The Alchemy of Cooking: Our Children, Our World
by Montse Bradford
This article looks at the importance of nutrition and correct supply of nutrients for the rapid growth and healthy development of children.
The Dieting Glut
by Jane Dunkeld, Ph.D.
Doctors have known about the risks to health of being overweight for centuries; Hippocrates (460-377 BC) noted that stout people were more likely to die suddenly and unexpectedly. People have been trying out different methods of reducing weight for centuries, too, and this article aims to give an overview of these.
The Feel-Good Factor: Brain Health
by Ann Crowther
The Gene Factor
by Nicki Woodward
This column focuses on our genes and the modern diet. Statistics on diseases highlight the fact that our bodies have not yet evolved to cope with junk food on a regular basis. Although most of us try our best to eat what we think is healthy, our underlying challenge is knowing what is truly healthy.
The Importance of Micro-Nutrients in Optimum Health
by Cain Leathem
This article examines several aspects that can influence or hinder the uptake of essential micro-nutrients that we need to consume in order to maintain optimum health. These include the re-evaluation of recommended levels to ensure that a person has an intake-guideline to not only prevent deficiency-onset disease but possibly to a level that would contribute to their health.
The Importance of Minerals to Health
by David E Marsh
At a time when we have just begun to get our minds around the 43 or so "essential nutrients", we are now informed there may be some 40 more: many of which, unless we were familiar with the list of the so called 'periodic elements', we barely knew existed.
The Importance of Nutrition in Sports
by Bernard Beverley
An expert and adviser on nutrition, Bernard Beverley offers a comprehensive overview of the importance of a nutritional diet for sportsmen and women of all levels of fitness. The article attempts to help you identify your nutritional requirements according to your lifestyle.
The Ins and Outs of Emotional Eating
by Gina Pickersgill
The Juicer's Guide
by Kerry Doyle
A 27 point 'How To' guide for juicing for health. A follow-up to Kerry's article in issue 49.
The Mangosteen Fruit - Garcinia mangostana - Science and Ongoing Research
by Dr Frederic Templeman
This authoritative feature describes the fruit, commonly called 'mangostan', 'mangostana', 'mangosteen,' or 'mankut', has moved far beyond its humble origins in Indonesia.
The Nutrition Maze Part I
by Vivienne Bradshaw-Black
In this article the author focuses on the quality of nutrients and nutrition today. Food, she says, should contain bulk, nutrients and fuel. Plants grown in non-toxic mineral and microbe-rich soil convert its raw materials into healthy plants. Animals that eat unpolluted, nutrient-rich vegetation produce healthy meat, milk and eggs (providing that the animals themselves are not polluted from non-food sources, e.g. vaccinations, hormones, food additives, drugs, inappropriate foods for species, etc.).
The Nutrition Maze Part III - Brain Involvement
by Vivienne Bradshaw-Black
The author looks at digestion in this issue and how important it is to create the right environment for good digestion to happen. She explains that digestion is used for the body to select the nutrients it needs and utilise them while excreting those that are not needed. This process gives us the nutrition we need for maintenance, growth and repair.
The Nutrition Maze: Part 2 - Not For Eating
by Vivienne Bradshaw-Black
In the first part of this two-part article the author explained the importance of using high-quality, pure food sources. In this second part she looks at sources that are not suitable human nutrition.
The Pitfalls of Reductionism in Nutrition
by Vivienne Bradshaw-Black
This column touches on some nutritional factions and the pitfalls of reductionism in nutrition in general.
The Power of Corrective Nutrition
by June Butlin
Jane had always been full of life, slim and very energetic. She worked hard running her own preparatory school, and taught full time. However, in 1993, at the age of 52, she encountered health problems.
The Properties of Milk
by June Butlin
Milk is a very important food for all mammals as it provides optimum nutrition for growth and development. However, when the milk of each mammalian species, whether goats, elephants, cows, humans, lions or wolves is analyzed, the findings are that it varies in composition and nutrient value.
The Right-Salt Diet
by Vivienne Bradshaw-Black
This article gives a taste of the true value of salt which is a natural substance, like flour and sugar, and should contain all the elements from its source, the sea. But in today's industrialized and economic-driven world, salt has become processed and stripped of naturally occurring nutrients and colour.
The Role of Essential Fatty Acids in Breast Cancer Prevention
by Stephen Byrnes
The author highlights the misconceptions about, and explains the differences between, saturated fats (in animal fats like butter and palm kernel and coconut oil), monounsaturated fats (in nuts, avocadoes, olive oil and some animal fats) and polyunsaturated fats (in vegetable oils, fish oils and chicken skin), and discusses their relationship to breast cancer.
The Role of Nutrition and the Nutrition Practitioner in the 21st Century
by June Butlin
This article looks at the role of nutrition and the nutrition practitioner in health care. The author, who has been a practitioner for 16 years, was inspired by Ruth Bircher's book Eating Your Way to Health.
The Side Effects of Antibiotics
by June Butlin
Discovering antibiotics in the 1930s was a major breakthrough for modern medicine as it allowed many people to be saved from life threatening diseases such as typhoid and meningitis. However, caution should be taken when considering the use of antibiotics, as there are known side effects.
The Use of Herbs and Phytonutrients in Pain and Inflammation
by June Butlin
This article continues the discussion on pain and inflammation introduced in Issue 59 and focuses on the analgesic and anti-inflammatory properties of herbs and phytonutrients. Five specific natural remedies are discussed in detail:
Therapeutic Properties of BioBran MGN-3
by Andrew Paterson
The author illustrates the immunomodulatory effect (increasing the activity of the body's lymphocytes) of BioBran MGN-3, supported by detailed research evidence relating to its effectiveness in the treatment of cancer when taken as an adjunct to conventional cancer treatments, i.e. chemotherapy and radiotherapy.
Therapeutic Properties of Systemic Oral Enzymes
by Michael Sellar
This article illustrates how taking enzymes has assisted sportsmen both by speeding up recovery following injury and by reducing the level of pain, inflammation and stiffness.
Transport of Nutrition from Mouth to Cell
by Vivienne Bradshaw-Black
When considering nutrition, food quality and sources are usually the two factors that come to mind. This column, however, focuses on the connection between nutrition and lymphatic drainage and muscular balance.
Vitamin C - Essential for Year-Round, Whole Body Protection
by L Phillips Brown
In this article, Dr Phillips Brown discusses the multiple benefits of vitamin C including its ability to strengthen the immune system, maintain healthy joints, improve vision, and enhance cognitive and cardiovascular functions. As a water-soluble antioxidant it neutralizes free radicals. It also regulates iron distribution and storage and works as an anti-inflammatory. It can also help to rid the body of heavy toxins.
Wake Up and Kick the Caffeine Habit for Good
by Petrene Soames
Petrene Soames, a leading authority on healing and self-awareness, cuts straight to the chase by pointing out that many of us are addicted to caffeine, a legal stimulant that actually plays havoc with our nervous system.
Water
by Timothy Freer
Timothy Freer – who has researched nutritional products, water purification methods and tools for energy health for the last seven years.
Weight Loss Through Well-Being
by Paul Smith
The bare facts about dieting are well known – only around one in twenty attempts to lose weight will succeed. Yet this doesn't stop millions of people trying over and again to reach their desired shape and weight.
Which Food is Best?
by Stephen Byrnes
One of the most frequent questions I am asked as a naturopathic doctor and nutritionist is, "What is the best diet?
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