A Foundation Course in Understanding Nutritional Medicine
Direct from the Plaskett International College, UK
What is Nutritional Medicine (NM)?
Nutritional Medicine is a form of therapy that uses food, supplementary nutrients and cleansing procedures to alleviate or prevent chronic health problems. Whilst anyone can “tinker” with the diet, the ability to apply sound nutritional prescriptions to effectively achieve this calls for well-developed professional skills. The prescriptions are based on medical, family and dietary histories and practitioners will develop a diagnostic insight specific to this type of treatment.
Nutritional Medicine is holistic because of its:
- drug-free nature
- overall respect for the inherent vitality of cells and tissues
- support for active biological prcesseses rather than using inhibitory methods
- recognition of the extent to which the mental effects depend upon the nutrition of the brain
- acknowledgement of the emotional state of the patient
Course Enquiries: 98554022/63363462 Email: nm@colemancollege.com.sg
What the Nutrition and Health Advanced Certificate Course Covers:
1) The Principal Bulk Nutrients and Associated Foods
- Proteins, Carbohydrates, Fibre, Fats, and Classes of Food Based Upon Composition
- The Cell & Cell Energy
- Energy Content of Food, Release of Energy from Food, Enzymes, The Overwhelming
Importance of Cell Energy, The Vitality of Cells and Tissues, The Key role of Blood Glucose, Key Factors Most Likely to Erode Good Vitality, Co-Factors for Enzymes, Enzyme Poisons
- The Environment Inside the Cell
- Out of Balance Intakes of Sodium and Potassium, Calcium and Magnesium Balance, Calcium
Mishandling,
- The Need for Cell Self-Cleansing – Naturopathic Elimination, the Concept of Self Cleansing, Chronic and Acute States, Suppression
- The Micro-Minerals and their Contribution to the Cell
- How Metals Act as Enzyme Activators
Iron (daily requirement, reasons for deficiency., iron deficiency anaemia, use of supplementary iron), Zinc (daily requirement, reasons for deficiency and connections to illness, Use of supplementary zinc), Manganese (daily requirement, effects of deficiency, physiological roles and connection to illness, use of supplementary manganese, Copper (daily requirement, effects of deficiency, role and illness connections, occurrence and effects of copper excess), Chromium (daily requirement, deficiency effects, role and disease connection, chromium supplementation), Selenium (daily requirement, deficiency effects, role and disease connection, selenium supplementation),Molybdenum (daily requirement, deficiency effects, role and disease connection, molybdenum supplementation).
- Non-metallic micro-minerals (iodine, fluorine, silicon, boron), toxic metals
- Metallic Macrominerals (potassium, sodium, magnesium and calcium)
- Vitamins (intakes and RNIs for Vitamins, How Vitamins Work)- Vitamin B1 –thiamine, Vitamin B2-Riboflavin, Vitamin B3- Niacin (Nicotinic Acid) and Nicotinamide, Vitamin B5- Pantothenic Acid, Vitamin B6 – Pyridoxine, Pyridoxal, , Pyridoxamine, Vitamin B12 – Cyancobalamine, Folic Acid – Pteroyl Glutamic Acid, Biotin, Vitamin A, Vitamin C- Ascorbic Acid, Vitamin D. Vitamin E, Vitamin K, Non-Vitamin Nutrients, How Vitamins Contribute to Cell Energy and Increase the life Force, Food Sources of Vitamins
7) Bowel Flora – How it Aids Cleansing and the Maintenance of a Good Environment Inside the Body – the bacteria of the large intestine, the alternative view of desirable and undesirable bowel flora, the benefits from an acidic lower bowel, the effect of bowel flora upon cleansing, association of lactobacillus with milk, synthesis and absorption of B Vitamins, the reciprocal effects of bowel flora, the bowel flora from infancy to adulthood, Candida Albicans, How to Maintain the Bowel Flora, The Use of Bowel Flora Products
8) Characteristics of Main Food – Suppressive Vs Eliminative Foods - Milk as a problem food, Wheat and Rye as problem Foods, Vegetables, Relation of Elimination to Acidity, the two-step process of elimination, the neutral grains, salt, sugar.
9) The Composition of Foods – Fruits, Pulses, Root Vegetables, Leaf Vegetables, Potato, Cauliflower, Celery, Cereals, Nuts, Seeds, Fish, Crustascea, shellfish, Eggs, Meats, Milk, The Spread of Bulk Nutrients (Protein, Carbohydrate, Fat), the Spread of Mineral Nutrients (Sodium, Potassium, Calcium, Magnesium, Iron, Copper, Zinc)
10) Allergies, Intolerances and Sensitivities – The Microminerals and their Contribution to the Cell –Allergic Reactions Defined, The Nature of Allergies and the Effects They Have (symptoms which sometimes can be caused by allergy) Obvious Reactions, The Four Main Classes of Allergies (Fixed Allergies, Variable Allergies, Cyclic Allergies, Masked , Hidden or Addictive Allergies) The Possible Underlying Causes of Allergy (First theory, Second Theory, Third Theory, Fourth Theory), Viewing Allergy Tests and their Limitations (Cytotoxic Allergies, Vega Testing, Skin Testing, Pulse Testing, Muscle Testing-Kinaesiolgy), What Help is Available to Deal with Allergies (Avoidance without testing, Avoidance after testing, Rotation diets, Avoidance of Food Additives and Chemicals, Keeping a Food and Additives Diary), The Key Role of Nutrition in the Underlying Case and Treatment of Allergy, How Allergies Interfere with Treatments, The Concept of Neutralisation, The Allopathic or Orthodox Drug Approach.
11) Designing Diets
– Meat, Fish and Crustacea, Eggs, Dairy Produce, Fresh Vegetables, Fresh and Dried Peas, Chickpeas, Beans (other than runner and French types) Lentils, Nuts (Unsalted but not peanuts), Wheat and Rye, Other Grains, Fried Food, Beverages, Potatoes, Fats and Oils, Drieid Fruit, Fresh Fruit and Fruit Juices, Honey and Molasses.
12) The Use of Supplements – General Guidelines, Preparing for Mineral and Vitamin Supplementation, Steps in Supplement Intake, Simple and Effective Combinations, The Eliminative Qualities of Magnesium and Calcium (Magnesium as a Promoter of Toxin Elimination, Calcium as a Modulator of the Eliminative Action of Magnesium) Less Frequently Used Combinations, Use of Multiple Formulations, Adding in Trace Elements as a Further Stimulant of Toxin Elimination and for Correction of Deficiencies, Zinc and Manganese, Conditions Where Practitioners of Nutritional Medicine Might Use Such Formula, Vitamin A& D, Vitamins C& E, Choline & Inositol, Calcium Pantothenate, The Role of the Practitioner of Nutritional Medicine.
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