Nutritional Therapy is the study and application of the individual patient's nutritional needs to ensure that the body is properly maintained for optimum health.Even those who try to eat sensibly are often missing essential nutrients in their bodies, because of the generally low quality of vitamins and minerals and high levels of toxins in most food available to us today. We overeat or eat too much sugar and fat content foods and then go on diets to control our weight. All of this leads to poor nutrition and bad health. The renowned Mediterranean diet is still available and rich in many of the constituents needed to stay healthy. This, together with the right amount of sun exposure to give you plenty of good Vitamin A.
What we eat provides the building blocks for life. Nutritional therapy is about providing the right type and amount of the building blocks so that our bodies can function optimally and so be able to meet the challenges of our environment.Today, keeping healthy is a challenge for most of us. The environment that we have created particularly over the last fifty years through the introduction of synthetic chemicals, pollutants and the manipulation of the food chain does not make it easy for us, and often as a consequence symptoms manifest and actual disease states follow on.Our health is inextricably linked to what we eat, our environment, the genes we inherit from our parents, our social circumstances, attitudes and lifestyle. Your nutritional therapist will guide you in your understanding of the complexities surrounding your diet and your health and will devise a programme that is tailored to meet your individual needs.
Medical Nutrition Therapy is an essential component of comprehensive health care services. Individuals with a variety of conditions and illnesses can improve their health and quality of life by receiving medical nutrition therapy. MNT can increase consumer's health and well-being, and increase productivity and satisfaction levels through decreased doctor visits, hospitalizations and reduced prescription drug use.
Nutritional therapy combines science (biochemistry and nutrition) with naturopathy (natural, drug-free medicine) in order to return the patient to a state of good health. Nutritional therapy is wholistic because it is designed to treat the body as a whole - curing the causes of problems, not just the symptoms as is too often the case in conventional medicine. In addition scientists as well as mystics agree that there is an energetic aspect to life. Disturbances in the energy fields lead to illness, and flower essences and homoeopathy assist recovery. Spagyric essences are unique in combining homoeopathy, aromatherapy, phytotherapy and mineral therapy.
Nutritional therapy is a system of healing based on the belief that food, as nature intended, provides the medicine we need to obtain and maintain a state of health: our food is our medicine and our medicine is our food. Although some health problems require specific medication, many conditions can be relieved effectively with nutritional therapy. These include disorders ranging from chronic fatigue, energy loss, insomnia and depression, to backache, skin complaints, asthma, and headaches.
Nutritional therapy will also benefit you if you have no specific illness, but want to maintain a state of optimum health. It is safe for babies and children as well as adults, and the change of eating patterns that is typically prescribed usually has far fewer side effects than synthetic medicines.
Nutritional therapy is a holistic discipline; nutrition as the key to good health is the all-embracing fundamental principle used since the time of the famous Greek doctor and founder of western medicine, Hippocrates, to help people of all ages to stay at their personal peak of energy and vitality. Today, new insights of food scientists play a significant role in the practice of nutritional therapy as preventative medicine.
Nutritional therapy can healp in :
* Allergies
* Anorexia and bulimia
* Anxiety, stress and depression
* Asthma
* Bowel problems (IBS,constipation, bloating)
* Candida Albicans
* Detoxification
* Digestive problems
* High blood pressure
* High cholesterol
* Hyperactivity and ADHD
* Infertility
* Insomnia
* Joint and muscle pains
* Low energy
* Menstrual and menopausal problems
* Migraine
* Polyps and fibroids
* Over-weight
* Skin problems
