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Stoke Newington
Maria Esposito BSc (Hons) MBANT NTC
Stoke Newington/Stamford Hill Practice in Hackney
Tel: 07956 662 954
Email: esposito_m@yahoo.co.uk
Website: London Nutrition Consultant
Oliver Barnett ND, Dip Nut, MBANT
Stoke Newington and Islington Practice
Naturopath, Nutritional Therapist &
Iridologist
07971 987615
oliver@oliverbarnetthealth.co.uk
www.oliverbarnetthealth.co.uk
Nutritional Information - Seeing A NutritionistThere is a strong relationship between diet and health. Even conventional medicine accepts that around a third of cancers are caused by diet. Obesity, caused largely through inappropriate and excess food intake compared to our needs is accepted as being a risk factor for disease.
Health problems such as coronary heart disease, rheumatic diseases, constipation and a host of others were uncommon before 1900, but are very common today. The consumption of refined and processed foods,whose consumption has grown enormously over the last century, has a great deal to do with our present day health problems.
A huge amount of research has been carried out into the science of nutrition, and many nutrients have been studied in some depth leading to the belief held by many scientists that greater amounts are needed that just those that are needed to prevent deficiency diseases.
The concept of optimum nutrition rejects the idea that vitamins are only needed in tiny amounts to stave off deficiency diseases. They are needed to optimise the function of the enzymes that depend on them. Only optimum nutrition can give us optimal health.
Nutritional therapy encompasses the food that we eat, how it is prepared, improved digestion, absorption, assimilation and excretion of cellular waste. The individual's particular metabolism is also considered. Diets may be recommended for different life stages, activity levels, stress or occupation.
The nutritional therapist will also consider the effect on the body to exposure to pollutants, heavy metals, antibiotics, prescription and recreational drug use, fluid levels, the status of the gut flora and food sensitivities.
Nutritional therapy is very successful when dealing with chronic health conditions. Dietary manipulation combined with specific nutritional supplements based on the individual's needs. Benefits are usually observed within the first month, but the body adapts and heals at its own pace and this must be allowed for when seeking health solutions to chronic problems.
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