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What is Clinical Nutrition ?

What you need to ask yourself first before reading on is 'am I a lemming or a sheep' ?

If you think that uncle Joe's supplements did him good and they will do you good then your either a lemming or a sheep, but your definitely not your NOT uncle Joe !

Or like many others you have been conned by the 'industry' into thinking and taking whatever they state as being objective or 'scientific' with no supportive evidence ?

They will tell you the 'story' but what people don't realise is that's exactly what it is a  story, it cannot be supported objectively or scientifically.

I.E. if salmon's Omega 3 is good for you (which it's not), why is there a health warning label "MAY CONTAIN AS MUCH AS 10% OMEGA 3 FATTY ACIDS" ?

Why, well Omega 3 fatty acids (n-3 FA), are known 'scientifically' to accelerate ageing, cardiovascular disease, cancer but according to the 'industry' their good for you ?

Well it's good for Eskimo's ?

For a start your not an Eskimo, nor do you eat the Eskimo diet that is not quoted which actually combats the Omega 3's ?

If you did you would 'get away with taking Omega 3 oils'.

Eskimo diet : no sugar; no starches or very little; very little n-6 FA's (Omega 6); no overcooked or denatured protein; most of the meat or is fish eaten raw; end's of bones and marrow eaten; glands and organs eaten; no overeating. 

So are you an Eskimo or a conned lemming / sheep ?

Omega 3's cause the pathologies they are supposed to prevent !!

How do they explain the Hunzas who have no omega 3's oils, live on fermented milk products and live far longer life spans than Eskimo's ?

Going back to uncle Joe, are you the same sex as him; are you the same age; do you have the same morphology (body type); do you eat the same as him; do you live in the same atmosphere / surroundings / country; do you do the same job or exercise: do you drink alcohol like he does or doesn't, the list is endless but it did him good so it will do you and everyone else good ?

Some people do the same with pharmaceutical drugs, but objectively thinking would you play health 'roulette' ?

If you think that you are an objective thinking individual and not in the above categories then read on.

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Clinical nutrition is for want of a better term specific tailored made nutrition for that person by using a variety of tests and then calculating the results of the tests to determine how that persons body is functioning and what it needs.

The great vitamin everyone uses is vitamin 'C'.

But did you know that it can also make your condition considerably worse in certain situations ?

Its not the 'cure all' everyone thinks it is.

Fact : more or less everyone reacts to a food of some sort ?

These foods also contain 'nutrition' that you will also be reacting to as a person.

By taking certain types of supplements whatever they may be, the person is in actual fact consuming the foods that they react to ?

This is one reason why Vitamin C is not good for everyone, even though you are told that it is !

A lot of people take a multi B vitamin, which is fine BUT if your ill you will probably find that it doesn't seem to do anything like what you expected it to, why ?

Each vitamin acts as a catalyst for another vitamin, they need to be in balanced amounts for this action to work properly.

Think of it this way, if you have 6 cups and each cup represents a singular vitamin.

Four of the cups are 3/4 full while the other two cups are around 1/2 full of vitamins.

If you add the same amount of vitamins to each of the cups individual vitamins will it change anything ?

No, not really, as the cups will still have the same amounts respectively that they had in the beginning - except four cups will be full and overflowing while the other two cups will now be three-quarters full.

Now supposing your body has these 'cups' and it really needs the 1/2 cups topping up, but not the other cups, to make the catalyst action / balance work for you and your body's needs.

The deficiency is still the same but made worst by the fact that you now have too much of four vitamins and still not enough of the other two vitamins.

Your body will then work with these in trying to remove the 'excess vitamins', as its a 'new threat', it will ignore the deficiency as its already 'managing' one way or another (symptoms) in coping with the deficiency.

So the catalyst action will still not be what it should be 'balanced'.

Meanwhile the vitamins the you really need are not being utilised as they should be and even with this added extra amount you will still be deficient in that particular vitamin, because of the above reasons.

It should also be remembered that most B vitamins are dumped out of the body daily, so has your imbalance really been changed ?

The other side of the story is that the excess vitamins are probably related to your health problem and you don't need them, in fact you should not be taking them, as they can and will hold you in that particular imbalance / health problem.

The same also applies to minerals, the concepts are the same as for the vitamins.

This is why as a clinic we test you, to find out what your deficiencies and imbalances are, so that we can 'target' what your bodies needs are.

We do not use muscle testing for this procedure, as it is not accurate enough from our experience in assessing the whole body needs and its imbalances, this is why our testing is called 'clinical nutrition'.

With every clinical nutrition test a written report is also given, once the calculations have been done, indicating what is needed and why it is needed, in the correction of the imbalances that are going on in that persons ill health.

Also the types of foods that will make your ill health worse and which types of foods will help to correct it.

A urine analysis is also done as part of this nutritional testing and calculations.

As a clinic we provide these tests 'in house'.

The final 'ingredient needed' with any nutrition or foods is decent water !

Ask yourself :-

Does my water taste good or does it taste of Chlorine and other 'things' ?

Do I drink enough water and if you don't drink water why not ?

Because without water your cells will not function properly and die quicker !

It doesn't matter how much exercise you do or what diet / way of eating you follow, your body WILL need this fundamental ingredient = WATER !

A recent television program The Wright Stuff and its panellists including an MP decided that there is nothing wrong with tap water in the UK plus its free ?

Well yes it is free, but because of the mass supply the water has to be chlorinated.

The MP then went on to say that she ran the tap for a few minutes before drinking and then it was fine ?

I wonder how many gallons wasted this would equate to if we all did this and she is still drinking Chlorinated water, even after running the tap water ?

Their final conclusion - its all a sales gimmick, as bottled water costs far more than tap water, which we would agree with on the bottled water.

But, there are other ways of obtaining good, decent drinking water, see below Sunrise Water.

Is Tap Water Safe?

A study suggests that some tap water -- despite being filtered and treated with chlorine -- may still be able to cause gastrointestinal problems in children, 10% of the serious gastrointestinal illness case in children -- the ones bringing the kids into the hospital -- are attributable to the drinking water said the researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Up to one-third of gastrointestinal illness may be related to drinking water that meets current federal standards, according to the report.

And those illnesses can have a substantial impact on the economy, costing $5.9 to 24.3 billion, according to one 1991 estimate, which included direct medical costs of treatment as well as indirect costs, such as lost productivity and leisure time.

Children are not the only ones at risk from such gastrointestinal illnesses. Adults with weakened immune systems are also at risk, including those with AIDS, cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy or radiation treatment, or the elderly.

Epidemiology (1997;8:615-620)

Chlorinated Water Can Affect Cancer Risk

Lifetime consumption of chlorinated tap water can more than double the risk of bladder and rectal cancers in certain individuals, two new studies conclude.

Both studies examined the lifetime water-consumption patterns, diets and lifestyles of over 2,200 middle-aged and elderly Iowans suffering from either bladder, colon, or rectal cancers. Those profiles were then compared with those of a pool of nearly 2,000 healthy 'controls'.

Recent research has suggested that chlorine reacts with naturally-found organic compounds in water to form what the study authors call "chlorination by-products."

They say many of these by-products are "mutagenic and/or carcinogenic."

The first study found that men who smoked and drank chlorinated tap water for more than 40 years faced double the risk of bladder cancer compared with men who smoked and drank non-chlorinated water, I don't remember the media or health professionals shouting and making an issue of chlorinated water ?

Women who drank chlorinated water, on the other hand, had only slightly raised risks for bladder cancers, regardless of (their) smoking status.

The second study found that rates for rectal cancers for both sexes escalated with duration of consumption of chlorinated water. Individuals on low-fiber diets who also drank chlorinated water for over 40 years more than doubled their risk for rectal cancer, compared with lifetime drinkers of non-chlorinated water.

Similar differences were also found between the risk patterns of chlorinated-water drinkers who exercised at least once a week, and those who exercised just once a month, or less. Experts have long recommended regular exercise as one means of reducing one's risk of rectal and other cancers.

The study found no link between the long-term consumption of chlorinated tap water and the incidence of colon cancer.

This was not surprising, the researchers explain, since colon tumours have very different patterns of genesis and development compared with rectal tumours.

They speculate that the source of chlorinated tap water may help determine its potential to promote cancers.

Since surface water (such as that found in lakes and reservoirs) usually contains higher concentrations of organic compounds, the study authors say it is also more likely to contain higher levels of (potentially carcinogenic) chlorination by-products, compared with water sourced from deep underground.

Note : where do we get our water from in the UK and then chlorinate it !

Epidemiology 1998;9(1):21-28, 29-35

Ever been in Hospital or visiting someone in Hospital and smelled the tap water or drank it ?

Well if you have you will know what I'm talking about - the highly Chlorinated water taste and smell !

The above article consolidates an argument of mine for many years, how can you get sick people better by using heavily Chlorinated water, it is not logical or scientific ?

Do you also think it might be one of the burdens that is affecting the NHS and even more so the 'healing' / recovery time of patients and its waiting lists etc., ?

Basic science and logic seem to go out the window, why ?

For more in-depth information on water go to on the links page.

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