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Obesity – a reality check? Towards a deeper understanding
Wednesday 3 June 2009
Venue: The Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London, W1G 0AE
Background:
We live in a society where it is easy to be fat and hard to be fit. We know we are facing an epidemic of obesity in the west, with a rising tide of disease and death to follow. The medical community’s attempts to stop this trend resemble Canute trying to hold back the waves. Too many glib new initiatives have promised much but delivered little. (more…)
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Illuminating the Path Forward
Location: The Westin Diplomat Resort & Spa, Hollywood, Florida
Start Date: 2009-05-27
End Date: 2009-05-30
Integrating New Approaches for the Evaluation and Treatment of Mood Disorders
The 16th International Functional Medicine Conference is being held in Fort Lauderdale this year. We highly recommend this programme to all our practitioners as a truly integrated medicine conference that attracts experts and practitioners from around the world. This is an absolute must if you wish to stay ahead of the curve in using nutritional and other mechanisms of intervention to achieve optimal health care.
Michael Ash is one of the invited speakers looking at the role of the gastrointestinal bacterial populations and atypical depression from a clinical perspective. Brochure (more…)
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The origins and evolution of the Western Diet: Health implications for the 21st century
Title: The origins and evolution of the Western Diet: Health implications for the 21st century
Location: University of Westminster
Date: 20-05-2009
Start Time: 4:30
End Time: 7:45 (more…)
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Nutrition and mental health
Practical solutions for mood disorders in adults
Tuesday 21 April 2009
This one day seminar features experts discussing the role of food and the gut in relation to altered mental health. Michael Ash is one of the key note speakers discussing the relationship between gastrointestinal immunity and central nervous system function. (more…)
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Why we eat what we eat – The psychology of choice
Completed: Monday 16 March 2009
This seminar is held and organised by the Royal Society of Medicine. The Food and Health Forum are the coordinators for the day.
Changing people’s dietary and lifestyle related habits is one of the hardest components of providing nutritional advice. this day sets out to provide insights into the different mechanisms that may cause or contribute to food selection and choice. Understanding how interventions may be altered to meet these differing explanations will provide you with greater clinical efficacy.
Read more on Royal Society of Medicine website.
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Autism Course with Michael Ash BSc(Hons) DO ND F.Dip.ION
Completed -Thursday 12 March 2009
The role of the immune system in the development and management of ASD is attracting considerable global interest. It may represent one of the most valuable interpretations of this complex group of behavioural disturbances. The mucosal immune system has the greatest number of innate immune receptors in the body and is exposed on a daily basis to a greater number of immune challenges than the rest of the immune system does in a typical lifetime. The interpretation of the challenges relies extensively on immunological tolerance being functional and proportional. The gastro intestinal tract receives its greatest immune challenge from the food selection we make. There is considerable opinion that manipulating this immune response by using amongst other agents, food selection and or mediation may lead to improvements in the health and function of individuals in the ASD spectrum. (more…)
