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Nutrition Notes Author Stephen J. Gislason MD Printed Text Version is $24.95 161 pages. Related Texts Both are included with Nutrition Notes in the... Professional Starter Pack You can order this text separately or as part of a Professional Starter Pack For Complete list of texts, see Publications If you want to order the eBook versions of these texts, please read eBook Information first. All these texts refer to our standard diet revision strategy, the Alpha Nutrition Program. To start the alpha Nutrition Program with addition texts and formula, consider ordering a starter pack. Please see Rescue Starter Packs For more information about nutrition topics, please see our Nutrition Center -------------------------------------- eBook Edition - $ 10.00 + $4 handling if bought separately eBook editions are sent as file attachments to an email sent in response to your order. There are two eBook formats available: 1. Microsoft Reader You need the Microsoft Reader installed in your computer, laptop or pocket PC. The Microsoft Reader is Free to download. 2. Adobe PDF files which can be read in versions 4.xx or more recent versions of Abode Acrobat Reader and Adobe eBook reader. Please note that the PDF file is relatively large -- about 3 megabytes and you will need room to accommodate a large email attachment in your mail inbox service. See eBooks for more information. Please install and use the Microsoft Reader or Adobe Acrobat Reader before you order eBooks. Prices Quoted in Canadian Dollars
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A steady flow of molecules from the environment enters the body of each individual, through the air breathed and the food and liquids ingested. A whole-systems approach to medicine studies this molecular stream. We assume that body-input determines not only health and disease in the long-term, but also the moment-to-moment functional capacity of the individual. Our destiny, individually and collectively, can swerve dramatically with changes in this molecular stream. A proper view of this critical relationship with our environment appreciates the fundamental properties of food, air, and water, taken together as the prime determinants of our being. Any study of nutrition divorced from this more realistic whole-systems view will be incorrect. A whole-systems approach to medicine is more consistent with life sciences. Ecology, the study of how the individual and the environment interact, provides us with key insights. Richard Grossinger, in his anthropological-historic view of healing practices, "Planet Medicine," provides us with a thematic base for our developing medical paradigm: "Medicine is the general inquiry into disease. It can involve the explanation of disease, the curing of disease, or both. Many systems throughout history have passed as medicines, and the basic issue of what is fake and non-functional (i.e. quackery) and what is sincere, educated medicine, continues to be debated in contemporary American society. This debate may well be one of the things, which shapes our era, for it underlies many political, economic, and ecological issues... "The real origin of disease is uncertain; it is broadly societal, constitutional, and cosmic. Real things are cured finally by a process, not a particular medicine. Drugs, after all, are only a seeming realization of the fantasy of solving all wrong things at once. But this is impossible" [1] The biological perspective in medicine, as it is practiced, may be limited to specific details of organ function and is usually diminished or distorted in alternative healing systems. It is normal for a biologist to think in terms of populations, food supply, seasons, weather, and social-behaviors, and to do field studies, which reveal patterns of adaptation to specific environments. Environmental quality is a major biological concern. The biologist sees every living creature connected to and interacting with his/her environment. Anyone who has worked with animals or fish in closed environments knows how critical environmental conditions and diet are in determining both the behavior and the physical status of the residents. When a fish in an aquarium displays psychotic behavior, you do not call a fish psychiatrist; you check the oxygen concentration, temperature, and pH of the water. You have to clean the tank and change the fish diet. We all live in and interact with home and work environments that partly determine our biological fate. In industrialized countries, the microenvironment of each individual is controlled by human constructions and is generally polluted by toxic substances (the extent of which is seldom measured) that are little understood. We recognize that cause and effect relationships do not go in straight lines, but rather loop within networks of interacting factors. Substance X, entering the body through lungs or gastrointestinal tract, does not have a predetermined course and, like the quanta within its atomic structure, will show only a probabilistic relationship with certain outcomes. Clinical tests which assess responses to single foods out of the contexts of habitual behavior are unlikely to be valid predictors of pathophysiology as it is actually lived in the continuum of interactions. The integrated view of body/mind does not draw artificial boundaries among different events. Psyche does not affect Soma or vice versa. Psyche and Soma are one interacting whole system. Behavioral adaptation to environment is intermeshed with molecular adaptation. This means that mind and body interact with environment as a single integrated unit. Molecular events are as likely to determine mind/body events, as mental or behavioral events are likely to determine molecular events. Numerous diseases are food-related. Some of these diseases are well known and others are often not recognized as food-related. Major degenerative and disabling processes in our society are often related to problems in the food supply and abnormal food-body interactions. These problems include diseases generally acknowledged diet related, such as atherosclerosis, alcoholism, obesity, cancer and diabetes. Other common disorders are not generally acknowledged diet-related and official advice ignores these problems The most obvious food-related problems are the result of eating too much and making the wrong food choices. Abnormalities in eating behaviors are now so common that it is difficult to define "normal eating". Food and ingested liquids are selected by socioeconomic and cultural factors more than biological factors. Food selection is part of more complex behavioral patterns, often determined by advertising and availability of junk and fast foods. Common abnormal eating behaviors include cravings, compulsions, binge eating, and excessive food intake with obesity, food addictions, aversions and anorexia. Alcoholism is one pattern of compulsive eating. Chronic ill health is associated with eating the wrong foods and drinking the wrong drinks. Often, food indulgences, rewards, treats, dessert and recreational food cause the most suffering - an intriguing paradox. One the key features of the wrong food choices is nutrient disproportion. An ideal diet has a balanced intake of all nutrients. Spontaneous diets have little or no chance of achieving ideal intake and typical diets are often recklessly disproportionate. A large body of evidence point to a high fat, low fiber diet as causing disease. Other evidence points to high sodium, low potassium diets as the cause of hypertension. High fat, high protein diets with low vitamin intake predispose to coronary artery disease, cancer and delayed patterns of food allergy. The belief that the food chain is contaminated with man-made chemicals is universal and readily validated. In the past decade, revelations of major alarming atmospheric changes - the greenhouse effect and ozone holes - have served to remind us of our destructive effect on the whole planet. While we are concerned about the chemical contamination of the food supply, this problems ranks sixth on our list of food-related problems. If we knew more about the effects of chemicals such as pesticides in the food, we may rank this problem higher. Food-borne infections are also a major concern but rank seventh on our list because the frequency and severity of food-borne infections is still well controlled by public health measures. We rank delayed patterns of food allergy as number five in our list of food problems and consider the concept of immune-mediated hypersensitivity disorders related to the food supply is a potential breakthrough in the understanding of modern disease. [1] ..." Grossinger R. Planet Medicine.1982. Shambala publications. Boulder CO.& London |
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