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Northern College of Acupuncture - Unique Nutritional Therapy MSc

The Northern College of Acupuncture in York is currently accepting applications for its well established PG Diploma/MSc in Nutritional Therapy starting in October 2011. This unique course is currently the only MSc in nutritional therapy in the country fully accredited by the NTC (Nutritional Therapy Council).

The course is validated by Middlesex University and consists of  two years of part time study in College (for the course starting in 2011 this will be two weekdays a month in term time) to complete the Diploma, and then optionally for the MSc up to two years of autonomous research and writing up of the MSc dissertation, with support from a personal supervisor. On completion of the Diploma our students can register with the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC), join the British Association of Nutritional Therapists (BANT) and work as a nutritional therapist

On this Masters level course our students learn to use evidence-based nutritional research and apply it directly in practice. The emphasis is on eating for health rather than just taking supplements, and our students develop highly effective and safe skills for clinical practice. The course is highly integrated with clinical practice in our teaching clinic from the outset.

The 'functional medicine' approach taught takes the underlying causes of illness into account, rather than just treating the symptoms, thus further enhancing our students' ability to get to the root cause of patients' problems. We also teach nutritional approaches from different traditional systems of medicine, and run workshops by inspirational leaders in the nutritional therapy field.

The course is open to healthcare practitioners and to people who already have a degree (or equivalent); a foundation course is available in the summer to provide students starting in the October with science basics and clinical skills..

Further Information
Please contact: Julia Brooks Leonard at the Northern College of Acupuncture on Tel : 01904 343309; juliabrooks-leonard@chinese-medicine.co.uk    www.chinese-medicine.co.uk

Sweet Cures' New Product Diabetrose™ Utilises Fat-Burning Metabolism

Diabetrose(tm)', based on Arabinose is the natural substance that helps mammals release glucose from the food we eat in a sustained way. As a natural but 'rare' sugar, we don't get enough of it in the modern diet, because we don't eat the foods - mosses, seaweeds, leaves, raw vegetables and roots that contain L-Arabinose. This leads to an imbalance, with an excess in the modern diet of sugars that rapidly breakdown to glucose. The result is a 'sugar rush' when we eat, and a rapid rise in blood-sugar levels.

Blood-sugar spiking indirectly causes all sorts of problems from obesity to Diabetes Type II, because once the sugar-rush has faded we get hungry again and tend to eat too much. Often the matter is made worse because low blood-sugar makes us want to eat sweet things, which starts that cycle all over again.

When the sugar-rush from eating reaches a particular level, our body realizes we are not going to need the glycogen we already have stored in our liver, and converts that excess glycogen into fat for long-term storage. This is the root cause of obesity. When people claim "It's my metabolism..." they are correct. But breaking the fat storage cycle effectively changes the metabolism.

Since available energy drops and appetite increases as soon as glycogen begins to be stored as fat and blood-glucose levels begin to fall, the process of stabilizing blood-sugar levels allows us to use stored glycogen as energy. When energy is available from stored glycogen, we don't get hungry. The process is simple - when we are less hungry, we eat less. When we use the energy stored as glycogen, we don't store it as fat. Gradually getting blood-sugar levels under control returns the body to a natural balance, especially when combined with a healthy lifestyle.

Further Information
Diabetrose in available from Sweet Cures on Tel: 01904-789559 and from the following websites: www.quicklytest.com    www.sweet-cures.com   www.xylotene.net   www.dribose.org.uk   www.wildoregano.net   www.probioticblend.com   www.diabetrose.com

Diploma Integrative Medicine - British College of Integrative Medicine (BCIM)

The first cohort of students at the British College of Integrative Medicine

The British College of Integrative Medicine (BCIM) was established in 2007 specifically to address the need for professional training and academic study of Integrative Medicine (IM). Its initial cohort of doctors and nurses will graduate in the Study of Integrative Medicine (DipSIM) in March 2012, with the first ever British postgraduate degree qualification in Integrative Medicine.

Dr Sohère Roked (1) a student at the British College of Integrative Medicine defines Integrative Medicine as a "healing-orientated approach that emphasises the patient-practitioner relationship, focusing on the least invasive, least toxic, and least expensive methods, integrating both allopathic and complementary approaches to facilitate health". Dr Roked, who works as a registrar in a busy GP practice in Bridgend, South Wales, will be one of the first to graduate from BCIM, and she says it's already altered her practice for the better.

The full Diploma is a two-year, part-time course, with other flexible study opportunities available (assessed or unassessed) for doctors, nurses and other graduate healthcare professionals who are invited to apply now for the next course, starting October 2011.  

Fellow student Dr Rory McGill full time GP in Plymouth for 17 years, was growing frustrated by the limits of the biomedical model and has now set up his own private practice as an holistic doctor.  

Reference
1. Rakel,D. Integrative Medicine. 2nd Edition. Saunders, Elsevier.2008.

Further Information
For more information about the British College of Integrative Medicine please visit www.integrativemedicine.uk.com 

The Dove Clinic for Integrated Medicine

The Dove Clinic, based in Twyford near Winchester and in Central London, offers integrated therapies for a wide range of illnesses and conditions and undertakes consultations in other areas of chronic illness. The Clinic offers a wide spectrum of complementary treatments and therapies, delivered by a dedicated team of professionals, under the direction of one of the leading experts in the field - Dr Julian Kenyon.

The Clinic specialises in the treatment of:

• Allergy and Intolerance
• Angina
• Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
• Life Threatening Illness
• IBS

The Dove Clinic Team
Dr Julian Kenyon is Founder-Chairman of the British Medical Acupuncture society in 1980 and Co-Founder of the Centre for the Study of Complementary Medicine in Southampton and London where he worked for many years. He is also Founder/President of the British Society for Integrated Medicine and is an established authority in the field of complementary treatment approaches for a wide range of medical conditions.

Dr Richard Fuller is a traditionally trained GP, with a family heritage in homeopathy with post-graduate qualifications with the Faculty of Homeopathy and has undergone post graduate training with the British Medical Acupuncture Society. Dr Fuller is the Clinic's lead doctor for Enhanced External Counter Pulsation (EECP), a non-invasive treatment for angina and heart disease. He is also the lead clinic doctor for Low Dose Immunotherapy.

Tanya Kenyon RN. Tanya completed her general nurse training in 1974 and her midwifery training in 1977, further experience in community and Marie-Curie nursing, together with additional training in palliative care, bereavement counselling and complementary therapies. She currently works within the clinic as a Nurse Practitioner; Clare Robinson MSc RN Clinic Manager. Clare has been a practising nurse for over 25 years, with previous NHS experience in both Primary and Secondary care.  

Further Information
Please contact The Dove Clinic on  Tel: 01962 718000; Fax: 01962 717060;  reception@doveclinic.com     www.doveclinic.com

Chakra Psychology - Unique Course for Healers, Counsellors, Psychotherapists, Bodyworkers, Yoga Teachers

9 Saturday afternoons once a month October 2011 - June 2012
beginning on Saturday 15 October 2011
Muswell Hill, North London

The chakra system, combined with Western in-depth psychology, offers us a healing model that brings together all these aspects of being human. Through gaining knowledge of different contemporary psychological models, and experiential work, you will help heal yourself as well as gain ways of helping to heal your clients. The Chakra System offers an approach to understanding human growth and development that sits firmly at the interface of spirituality, the mind and the physical body.

Course fee £395 - this includes all materials, assessment of a written assignment and a free one hour individual tutorial please note: there is an option to pay in instalments you will receive a certificate on completion of course requirements.

Journey through the Chakras -  3 day Course

For Meditators, Bodyworkers, Healers, Counsellors, Alexander Technique teachers, Psychotherapists, Yoga teachers, those on a spiritual, personal growth path. Validated for CPD by The Association for Therapeutic Healers.

Friday 8, Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 July 2011
10.00am - 4.30pm at The Fellside Centre, Low Fellside, Kendal, near the Lake District

Experience and learn about psychological and meditative approaches to working with the chakras and help yourself:

• Experience how the chakras can help you understand and heal past trauma
• Heal emotional or physical discomfort
• Have an effective and safe way to access to your unconscious mind, become aware of how this is affecting the quality of your life and so be able to do something about it to make your life better;
• If you are a therapist this knowledge, experience and tools will support you in your work with clients - whatever your discipline.

Course fee £245 includes materials, and a follow up individual session with Delcia. Attendees will receive a certificate of attendance.

Further Information
For full syllabus, payment arrangements and details contact Delcia McNeil CQSW BA(Hons) ITEC DipTH UKCP  on Tel: 015395 62420; Mob: 07515 807366; delcia@themcneilpartnership.com or visit www.themcneilpartnership.com

Dirty Medicine  The Handbook
by Martin J Walker
Published by Singshot Publications. 2011. Softback. £15; $20; €18. ISBN 978-0956409317.

Dirty Medicine  The Handbook is Martin Walker's twenty year follow up to his book Dirty Medicine: Science, big business and the assault on natural health care. In this new book Walker gives a full and detailed picture of the vested interests, their personalities, organisations and ideas that have shaped the present attack on alternatives in the field of health.  Alternatives and complimentary medicine is under attack on all fronts, The Handbook gives us the knowledge with which to defend ourselves and fight back.

History 1985-2008: Attacks and battles between Quackbusters and Natural Medicine Practitioners;
Health Corporatists: Influential Individuals, Organizations, their Profiles and links to Government
Groups, Projects, Committees, Attacks, Media Battles
Websites: Quackbuster and Corporate Science Skeptic
The Antidote: Free Thinkers, Campaigners, Natural Health Champions

Martin Walker names the powerful scientists, politicians and media celebrities who have been involved with the financial support of organizations deliberately tasked with the suppression, defamation and indeed obliteration of complementary and alternative medicine.

Dirty Medicine The Handbook illuminates the details and individuals behind the scandals which form major threads in Martin Walker's book, including the trial of Dr Andrew Wakefield before the General Medical Council, the legal challenges by Dr Simon Singh against the British Chiropractic Association, and the many venomous campaigns against homeopathic medicines. Martin also reveals through his research and political analysis, major media players and organizations and their funding.

Martin Walker describes the Alice through the Looking Glass phenomenon whereby everything you thought went one way was reported to be the opposite way as Truth Reversal - an excellent alternative term to the plain old lie.

Of doctors, epidemiologists, researchers, advisers, insurance scammers, quackbusters, bad journalists, corporate scientists, industry shills and other agents who do now or have in the past worked for, sided with, supported or simply been a part of corporate interests, manufacturing, pushing or promoting, products or ideologies antagonistic to the private and public health of workers, consumers, citizens, patients, alternative practitioners and science in the public interest; who they are, how to recognize them and their organizations, and what to do about them.

Further Information

Reviewed on Positive Health PH Online www.positivehealth.com/review/dirty-medicine-the-handbook

Available from Slingshot Publications
www.slingshotpublications.com   www.slingshotpublications.com/dmhandbook.html

also from Amazon www.amazon.co.uk/Dirty-Medicine-Handbook-Martin-Walker/dp/0956409318

Letters to Louise - The Answers Are Within You
by Louise L Hay
Published by Hay House; Updated edition Jan 2011. Paperback. £7.99.. ISBN: 978-1401927271.

Louise L. Hay intimately answers the questions from her thousands of fans around the world

Full of letters from people who have written to Louise hoping to change themselves and their world in some way, Louise's responses demonstrate some of her most personal and revealing reflections on her teachings. Louise strives, in her responses, to be the catalyst that helps these individuals to accomplish their goals, and thinks of herself as "a stepping-stone on a pathway of self discovery."
 
It is Louise's firm belief that by reading about other people's challenges and aspirations, we can see ourselves and our own problems in different ways, and use what we learn from others to make changes in our own lives. Louise has compiled this collection of personal letters to allow you to realise that you, too, have the strength within to change, and to find solutions on your own - that is, to seek the answers that are within you.
 
Louise L. Hay, the author of the international bestseller You Can Heal Your Life, is a metaphysical lecturer and teacher with more than 40 million books sold worldwide.  For more than 25 years, she has helped people throughout the world discover and implement the full potential of their own creative powers for personal growth and self-healing. She has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show and many other TV and radio programmes both in the USA and abroad.
 
Further Information
Available from Hay House: www.hayhouse.co.uk/books/1848504349/letters-to-louise

and from Amazon:  www.amazon.co.uk/Letters-Louise-Answers-Are-Within/dp/1401927270

Penninghame Ultimate Health Experience



The Penninghame Ultimate Health Experience, which takes place monthly, offers guests a uniquely life-changing experience. The Penninghame Health Week course will teach you how to whip up a Michelin style five course macrobiotic dinner which is as tasty as it is healthy, all with delicious home-grown or locally sourced ingredients. Food at Penninghame is freshly prepared daily, where possible using home-grown, organic produce from their own walled vegetable and fruit garden.

Penninghame teachings will educate you how to deal with symptoms of ill health including diabetes (type II), Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Immune Deficiency, Digestion issues, Sleeping problems (including Snoring and Insomnia), Allergies, Osteoporosis and more.   You will learn how easy it can be to feed and educate your family with a dynamic and flexible diet in order to give them the best start in life - nutritionally and emotionally. Some small dietary changes now can make a big difference in later life.  

Penninghame Ultimate Health Experience - Course Snapshot

• Enjoyment of Penninghame's stunning 90 acre estate;
• Morning exercise such as Nordic walking, oriental Do-In self-massage classes, yoga or hill walks with stunning views;
• 3 modern macrobiotic, nutritionally balanced wholefood meals a day plus refreshments such as home-made macrobiotic biscuits during breaks;
• 14 lectures throughout the week including classes on Rejuvenation of Health, Strengthening the Immune System, Fighting Infection, Balancing Blood Sugar Levels, Diabetes, Letting Go of Fat etc.  Other classes cover treating ailments from kidney weakness to sleep problems, chronic fatigue problems, cravings and addictions;
• Daily Modern Macrobiotic cooking lessons;
• Home remedy sessions teaching you to make your own home remedies e.g. salt pack, ginger compress, buckwheat plaster;
• Meditation and Oneness Experience (optional);
• Additional Cost  Individual 360 degree health consultation with a Penninghame expert: (1.5 hours duration at an additional cost of £95), during which a tailor made menu and lifestyle recommendations will be created especially for you.

 
Further Information
Further information and bookings can be made by contacting Penninghame on Tel: 01671 401414; office@penninghame.org       www.penninghame.org

Super Snack World's First Vegetable Bar Launches

It sounds too good to be true -  a tasty, savoury snack bar that's made with diced and roasted vegetables for 3 great-tasting flavours, has 99 calories a bar, is 100% natural, gluten and wheat free, suitable for vegetarians and counts as one of your five a day! But it's true as the Veatable Bar hits our shop shelves for the first time...

Ever been hungry mid-morning, but couldn't face another sugary snack from the vending machine or wanted to give the kids a treat that didn't involve crisps or biscuits, but excited them more than a piece of fruit? Well that's exactly why husband and wife team, Howard and Helena, developed Veatable Bars.

At first the couple were just making the bars in their kitchen for themselves and their family as a tasty and healthy alternative to snacks like cereals bars, but soon found people were loving their intriguingly tasty snacks and that they might have something really special on their hands.

The chewy baked snack bars, which have just launched in health stores for the first time, come in three great tasting flavours: Sweet Roasted Vegetable, Tomato Pizza and Thai Sweetcorn. Each counts as one of your five a day, is high in fibre, filling, free from artificial flavours, colourings and preservatives, has 99 calories, is gluten and wheat free and suitable for vegetarians. The chilled bars are a little slice of culinary inspiration in a tasty, savoury snack -  perfect for when you're hungry but trying to be good.

Veatable Bars are totally different to anything else currently available and finally make healthy snacking, for yourself or your family, easy and tasty. If you're looking for a scrumptious way to hit your five-a -day, Veatable Bars are a must.

Further Information
For more details visit www.veatable.co.uk. To buy ask at your local health store or visit www.garlandsorganic.co.uk and look in the savoury snack section.