Nutrition

Having just had a week off work I found myself meandering slowly round my local supermarket (I usually do a mad dash) and reading food labels. I do this from time to time to see if anything is easier for the consumer to understand.

Introducing the basic principles of Homeopathy and showing how it can be used as an effective and safe resource at home with local homeopath Anita Wicks. Anita has been practicing and teaching Homeopathy for the last 20 years and recently completed an advanced diploma in Naturopathic approach to Nutrition.

Kathryn from Brighton said:

In Ayurveda everyone and everything is made up of the five elements of earth, air, fire, water and ether, which are categorised into three groups known as the Doshas, Vata (air and ether), Pitta (fire and water) and Kapha (earth and water).

Dr. Hans Selye, the stress expert and author of Stress without Distress said that it is not stress that is harmful but distress. Distress occurs when unresolved emotional stress is prolonged and not dealt with in a positive way.

Over 50 years ago, a renowned study showed pesticides in human breast milk to be over ten times the current EU Maximum Residue Level for food. Today, with ever more chemicals in our environment we need to take precautionary measures. Toxins and pesticides simply cannot be avoided in today's environment. A government survey in 2004 showed pesticide residues of 67% in bread samples, 85% in farmed fish, 85% in oats and rye, 76% in pears and 40% in pre-packed salad.

Today, more and more people understand that disease can be prevented and cured naturally.

For many years we have adopted a 'quick fix' option, spending billions on over-the-counter medicines, suppressing and treating only symptoms but not the root cause!

Maintaining a healthy diet of fruit and vegetables is common sense, but in today's modern world, the nutritional value of our food is decreasing.

As my regular readers are now no doubt aware, good nutrition can play a vital role in the prevention of disease and the reduction of symptoms. Arthritis and osteoporosis cost the NHS billions each year and much can be done to help prevention and alleviate pain. There are many factors to be taken into consideration with these complicated diseases and wear and tear and hereditary factors also have a role to play.

Controlling your blood sugar is the key to sustainable weight loss, says Wellbeing's Nutritionist Kate Arnold.

Nearly one in two people are overweight or obese in the UK today. It's easy to assume that this is solely due to an increase in calorie intake but it's actually more to do with the types of food we are eating. Over the last fifteen years, the average British calorie intake has actually fallen. In China, where obesity is still rare, the average calorie intake is 2,630 kcals per day, this is more than the Americans who consume a daily average of 2,360 kcals.