Foundations of Naturopathic Nutrition

Author: Fay Paxton
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000249549
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 625

Book Description
Nutrition is a vital part of the complementary approach to health. This uniquely comprehensive and evidence-based text provides a detailed and systematic guide to the principles of clinical nutrition from a naturopathic perspective. The text begins with an overview of basic physiological principles and the body's protective systems, such as the antioxidant, detoxification and immune systems. The focus then moves to an in-depth examination of food components, including essential nutrients, such as protein, lipids, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals and trace elements, as well as nutritional bioactives, such as coenzyme Q10, alpha-lipoic acid, phytochemicals, digestive enzymes and probiotics. There is detailed information on how each food component is digested and metabolised in the body, and guidance on its impact on health, including an explanation of the effects of inadequate and excessive intake. The types of supplements available together with dietary sources are also explored. Discussions of important nutritional topics are featured - for example, water as therapy, obesity, anorexia nervosa, high-protein diets, hypoglycaemia, diabetes, phytosterols, gamma-tocopherol, vitamin E and mortality, vitamin C and cancer, infantile scurvy, acid-forming and alkaline-forming diets, hair analysis, sodium and blood pressure, and coenzyme Q10 and cancer. Summary boxes, case studies and quizzes will help readers consolidate their knowledge. Foundations of Naturopathic Nutrition is an essential reference for everyone studying nutrition from a complementary health perspective. 'I thoroughly recommend this book as a learning aid for students, and as an excellent reference guide for experienced practitioners.' - Jackie Day, President, Naturopathic Nutrition Association (UK) 'A fabulous resource, not only for practitioners but also all those with an interest in nutrition.' - Professor Alan Bensoussan, Director, National Institute of Complementary Medicine, University of Western Sydney 'The foundation nutrition text we've all been waiting for. Fay Paxton has drawn from her many years of clinical nutrition experience, combining it with relevant research-based evidence, to produce an exhaustive body of work that is unique in its specific relevance to naturopathic and complementary medicine students and practitioners.' - David Stelfox, Associate Program Leader, Naturopathy, Endeavour College of Natural Health

Fundamentals of Naturopathic Nutrition

Author: Jonathan Prousky
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781897025079
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description

Naturopathic Physical Medicine

Author: Leon Chaitow
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
ISBN: 0443103909
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 594

Book Description
NATUROPATHIC PHYSICAL MEDICINE provides a philosophical naturopathic perspective, as well as practical clinical applications, for manual and physical approaches to health care. A wide range of bodywork and movement approaches and modalities are evaluated in relation to their ability to be appropriately used in naturopathic treatment and rehabilitation settings. The model of care emphasised in this text recognizes that naturopathically oriented therapeutic interventions usually focus on achieving one or all of the following: enhancement of function so that the person, system or part, can better self-regulate in response to adaptive demands; modification or removal of adaptive load factors; and symptomatic relief without creation of significant additional adaptive changes.

Fundamentals of Naturopathic Pediatrics

Author: Jared Skowron
Publisher: Ccnm Press
ISBN: 9781897025338
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Pediatrics is a growing specialty within the field of naturopathic medicine chiefly because many modern children's illnesses, such as asthma, autism, obesity, type 2 diabetes, and attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD), have proven to respond well to naturopathic prevention and treatment modalities. Hypoallergenic elimination and rotation diets, heavy metal detoxification, vitamin and mineral supplements for nutrient deficiencies, and selected botanical and homeopathic medicines have been demonstrated in clinical studies and case histories to be effective against these epidemic conditions, as well as common traditional illnesses, from otitis media to eczema. Fundamentals of Naturopathic Pediatrics is the essential text for learning how to diagnose and treat pediatric conditions using scientifically proven naturopathic methodologies and remedies.

Clinical Naturopathic Medicine

Author: Leah Hechtman
Publisher: Elsevier Australia
ISBN: 0729541517
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 1611

Book Description
Clinical Naturopathic Medicine is a foundation clinical text integrating the holistic traditional principles of naturopathic philosophy with the scientific rigour of evidence-based medicine (EBM) to support contemporary practices and principles. The text addresses all systems of the body and their related common conditions, with clear, accessible directions outlining how a practitioner can understand health from a naturopathic perspective and apply naturopathic medicines to treat patients individually. These treatments include herbal medicine, nutritional medicine and lifestyle recommendations. All chapters are structured by system and then by condition, so readers are easily able to navigate the content by chapter and heading structure. The content is designed for naturopathic practitioners and students (both undergraduate and postgraduate levels) and for medical and allied health professionals with an interest in integrative naturopathic medicine. detailed coverage of naturopathic treatments provides readers with a solid understanding of the major therapeutic modalities used within naturopathic medicine each system is reviewed from both naturopathic and mainstream medical perspectives to correlate the variations and synergies of treatment only clinically efficacious and evidence-based treatments have been included information is rigorously researched (over 7500 references) from both traditional texts and recent research papers the content skilfully bridges traditional practice and EBM to support confident practitioners within the current health care system

Textbook of Naturopathic Integrative Oncology

Author: Dr Noe
Publisher: Ccnm Press
ISBN: 9781897025345
Category : Alternative medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Integrative cancer treatment, combining conventional allopathic drug, radiation and surgical approaches with naturopathic complementary and alternative strategies, is an innovative model of cancer care that empowers patients to participate in their own healing process. Naturopathic medicine is well known for helping to prevent cancer using lifestyle counseling and detoxification, but can also complement conventional treatment modalities using clinical nutrition and botanical medicine. The integration of these treatment strategies improves the outcome of the cancer and the quality of life of the patient. This textbook is designed to introduce medical college and health science students to this integrative approach to oncology. Part 1 reviews basic cancer cell biology and inflammatory pathway biochemistry, tracing the development of an abnormal cell into a cancer cell. Various theories of cell mutation are examined with the focus on inflammatory pathway biochemistry. Conventional chemo- and radiation therapies are analyzed in this context, as are the key naturopathic cancer treatment modalities, clinical nutrition, botanical medicine, and lifestyle counseling. These naturopathic therapies are shown to enhance the efficacy of chemo- and radio therapies and ameliorate side effects, safely. Part 2 presents common types of cancer in terms of their epidemiology and pathophysiology, leading to a discussion of their possible etiology, diagnosis, staging, and conventional treatment protocols. Naturopathic recommendations for each cancer are included with integrative applications. These recommendations have chemo/radio specific indications and contraindications. Within the individual chapters on cancer types, case histories of patients who have been managed integratively are presented so students can develop case management and clinical reasoning skills. Students are encouraged to work in small teams while solving these cases and drawing up management plan. The extensive references at the end of each chapter are augmented with a resources section at the back of the book. Taken together, this is the most complete and current list of integrative and naturopathic research in medical literature on cancer. Students should find these references to be an excellent springboard for new laboratory studies and for clinical application. Fully referenced, illustrated, and indexed, this textbook is the first effort to establish oncology as a fundamental subject of stu

Naturopathic Nutrition

Author: Abram Hoffer
Publisher: Ccnm Press
ISBN: 9781897025154
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
From two leading authorities in naturopathic clinical nutrition comes this consumer-health and patient-care book, diagnosing the dangers of our modern low-fibre and high-carbohydrate diet, while prescribing an optimum diet of nutrient-rich food and supplements for better health. The authors identify the nutritional deficiencies and dependencies caused by our 'junk-food' diet that lead to malnutrition and other serious dietary diseases and disorders. They recommend a diet that is whole, alive, fresh, and varied, rather than processed, dead, stale, and monotonous. For individuals with nutrient deficiencies and dependencies, they recommend appropriate vitamin, mineral, essential fatty acid, and amino acid therapy. The book features a 12-step program for developing an individualised diet and a 30-page analysis of the nutrient content of common foods. This collaboration between Dr Abram Hoffer (MD) and Dr Jonathan Prousky (ND) offers a unique complementary and alternative approach to good nutrition.

Dietetics of Naturopathic Medicine

Author: ND BBE Czeranko
Publisher: Nunm Press
ISBN: 9781945785023
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 414

Book Description
What we choose to eat is arguably the most important factor in producing and sustaining health. Many families today look to diet in working with diabetes, obesity, inflammation and nutritional health. Diet was a cornerstone for the early Naturopaths as they charted their course for health reform. Dietetics of Naturopathic Medicine reviews the writing of these early Naturopaths who scrupulously examined and documented the role of diet and food. As important today as when these pioneers first brought forward their discoveries into clinical practice, their dietetic knowledge is a precious resource for the modern Naturopath. The Rare Book Room at National University of Natural Medicine houses the unique collection of journals published by Benedict Lust in the last century. Through fifty years of advocacy and patient care, this naturopathic champion wrote, collected, edited and published several thousand substantial articles on every conceivable naturopathic medical subject. Culling this rich landscape of seminal articles, Dr. Sussanna Czeranko, ND, Rare Book Room Curator, has created an extraordinary, one-of-a-kind resource called The Hevert Collection: In Their Own Words, a twelve book series that reintroduces the roots of the medicine to modern Naturopaths. Richly illustrated.

The Six Pillars of Holistic Nutrition

Author: Robert Buchanan
Publisher: Robert Buchanan
ISBN: 0989222853
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 547

Book Description
1. The importance of proper metabolism, and how it can cause weight loss or weight gain if not functioning at an optimum level. 2. A revealing of the Holistic pathway to overcoming many know health conditions. 3. How to overcome weight gain through natural Holistic food choices by educating yourself with strategic healthy dietary strategies. 4. How to overcome the 3 leading causes of death in the United States, being heart disease, cancer, and diabetes, by just making new healthy dietary Holistic food choices, which can truly become life changing. 5. Educate yourself with Holistic strategies through fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, legumes, and whole grains to maintain a healthier long lasting life that can bring many years of enjoyment. 6. Over 500 pages of research in Holistic foods that bring sustaining health through enhanced digestive function, immune system support, improved cognitive function, and optimum overall health through Holistic foods. 7. Researched nutritional facts for each individual natural food, their vitamin content, mineral content, antioxidant content, amino acids, and phytonutrient percentages. 8. Researched nutritional facts for each individual natural food with their fat content, omega 3 and omega 6 content with their percentages.

Fundamentals of Naturopathic Oncology

Author: First Last
Publisher: Ccnm Press
ISBN: 9781897025048
Category : Diet in disease
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Designed for students and practitioners of naturopathic, complementary, integrative, and conventional medicine, this text provides a course of instruction in clinical nutrition from a naturopathic medical perspective that develops clinical reasoning skills in this field. It illustrates over 1,000 references, case studies, and review questions.