Nutrition tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-1250480 2008-07-10T09:25:32-07:00 Products and nutrients for healthy and drug-free living. TypePad The Ethics of Nutrition tag:mpamedia.com,2008:post-32161 2010-03-01T12:00:32-07:00 2010-03-01T12:00:07-07:00 What we hear about ethics mostly involves our CEUs and making sure we take the right classes and do the right thing. So how does nutrition have anything to do with being ethical? Here are a couple of examples... By Marlene Merritt, LAc What we hear about ethics mostly involves our CEUs and making sure we take the right classes and do the right thing. So how does nutrition have anything to do with being ethical? Here are a couple of examples... Updating the Medicated Diet tag:mpamedia.com,2008:post-32142 2010-02-01T12:00:32-07:00 2010-02-01T12:00:07-07:00 In order to achieve optimum effectiveness when using diet therapy, the first consideration is compliance. The main reason for the limited information available to the Western practitioner regarding food therapy is the obscure and often odd ingredients and flavors found in traditional recipes. By identifying the therapeutic combinations of ingredients, we can locate similar combinations in other styles of cooking. By Gordon Cohen, LAc In order to achieve optimum effectiveness when using diet therapy, the first consideration is compliance. The main reason for the limited information available to the Western practitioner regarding food therapy is the obscure and often odd ingredients and flavors found in traditional recipes. By identifying the therapeutic combinations of ingredients, we can locate similar combinations in other styles of cooking. Integrating Whole-Food Supplementation and Western Botanicals Into the Acupuncture Clinic tag:mpamedia.com,2008:post-32144 2010-02-01T12:00:32-07:00 2010-02-01T12:00:07-07:00 Chinese medicine is a path of healing that restores and maintains health. One primary aim is to increase the presence of life and health in a person, and help them manifest their unique destiny or potential as part of the whole of life. By Michael Gaeta Chinese medicine is a path of healing that restores and maintains health. One primary aim is to increase the presence of life and health in a person, and help them manifest their unique destiny or potential as part of the whole of life. Taking Medicated Diet Into the 21st Century tag:mpamedia.com,2008:post-32107 2010-01-01T12:00:32-07:00 2010-01-01T12:00:07-07:00 As a matter of course in traditional medicine, one is faced with the undeniable truth concerning herbal concoctions; they taste awful. In order to circumvent this, the resourceful herbalist prescribes food recipes that can replace the foul-tasting brews. This is particularly useful when formal care regimens are replaced with practical folk-based methods. The availability of formal supplies (herbs, drugs, etc.) is usually absent in areas where barefoot doctors are needed. By Gordon Cohen, LAc As a matter of course in traditional medicine, one is faced with the undeniable truth concerning herbal concoctions; they taste awful. In order to circumvent this, the resourceful herbalist prescribes food recipes that can replace the foul-tasting brews. This is particularly useful when formal care regimens are replaced with practical folk-based methods. The availability of formal supplies (herbs, drugs, etc.) is usually absent in areas where barefoot doctors are needed. Holistic Nutrition Your Patients Are Craving tag:mpamedia.com,2008:post-32127 2010-01-01T12:00:32-07:00 2010-01-01T12:00:07-07:00 Most of your patients are taking a multivitamin. If they aren't, they know they probably should. They might be taking vitamin C for immunity, or vitamin E because they heard it has antioxidant actions. But is what they're taking making a difference? Could it be harming them? Is it enough to make up for poor eating habits? By Marlene Merritt, LAc Most of your patients are taking a multivitamin. If they aren't, they know they probably should. They might be taking vitamin C for immunity, or vitamin E because they heard it has antioxidant actions. But is what they're taking making a difference? Could it be harming them? Is it enough to make up for poor eating habits? Why We Must Override Our Natural Instincts tag:mpamedia.com,2008:post-32128 2010-01-01T12:00:32-07:00 2010-01-01T12:00:07-07:00 For almost our entire history as Homo sapiens, we have been hunter-gatherers. Our metabolic pathways have developed under the pressures of usually not enough food. The only food around was good for us, unless it was rotten or spoiled. We avoided poisons due to their bitter and nasty tastes. Under these conditions, our bodies evolved several different ways of raising blood glucose but only one way of lowering it; insulin. There was rarely a surplus of food but rather almost always a deficit. We were wired to eat any food that we could get our hands on. By Andrew Rader, LAc, MS For almost our entire history as Homo sapiens, we have been hunter-gatherers. Our metabolic pathways have developed under the pressures of usually not enough food. The only food around was good for us, unless it was rotten or spoiled. We avoided poisons due to their bitter and nasty tastes. Under these conditions, our bodies evolved several different ways of raising blood glucose but only one way of lowering it; insulin. There was rarely a surplus of food but rather almost always a deficit. We were wired to eat any food that we could get our hands on. Holistic Nutrition Your Patients Are Craving tag:mpamedia.com,2008:post-32104 2009-12-01T12:00:32-07:00 2009-12-01T12:00:07-07:00 Most of your patients are taking a multivitamin. If they aren't, they know they probably should. They might be taking vitamin C for immunity, or vitamin E because they heard it has antioxidant actions. But is what they're taking making a difference? Could it be harming them? Is it enough to make up for poor eating habits? By Marlene Merritt, LAc Most of your patients are taking a multivitamin. If they aren't, they know they probably should. They might be taking vitamin C for immunity, or vitamin E because they heard it has antioxidant actions. But is what they're taking making a difference? Could it be harming them? Is it enough to make up for poor eating habits? Manifesto for Plant-Based Food Therapy tag:mpamedia.com,2008:post-32085 2009-11-01T12:00:32-07:00 2009-11-01T12:00:07-07:00 Food therapy needs to reclaim its central place in the practice of Chinese medicine and reconnect with the spirit of Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, who echoed the Yellow Emperor with his motto: "Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food." Food therapy is given lip service in most Chinese medicine schools, not unlike PE in high schools. It is reduced most often to one or two lonely classes offered toward the end of the curriculum; a sad mirror image of the current Western medicine curriculum that surveys nutrition in a few cursory class hours. By Liliane Papin, PhD, DOM, LAc Food therapy needs to reclaim its central place in the practice of Chinese medicine and reconnect with the spirit of Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, who echoed the Yellow Emperor with his motto: "Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food." Food therapy is given lip service in most Chinese medicine schools, not unlike PE in high schools. It is reduced most often to one or two lonely classes offered toward the end of the curriculum; a sad mirror image of the current Western medicine curriculum that surveys nutrition in a few cursory class hours.