Nutrition in Malvern

What is Nutritional Therapy?
Who benefits the most from nutrition?
Nutrition and Health Coaching
Functional Nutrition
Professional Standards
About the nutritionalists
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What is Nutritional Therapy?

Nutritional therapy encompasses the use of carefully compiled individual recommendations for diet, lifestyle and nutritional supplements in order to alleviate or prevent ailments and promote optimal health. Recommendations may include guidance on natural hormone balancing, methods to support digestion and absorption, procedures to promote detoxification, the avoidance of ingestion or inhalation of toxins or allergens and stress management.

Extensive research has shown that changing what we eat and how we live can be remarkably effective in addressing imbalances which underlie ill health. Nutritional therapy can benefit many people with chronic complaints, from the preclinical stage where there is a general feeling of ill health, up to the point where the body is no longer able to heal itself.

The nutritionists at the Beacon Clinic take two, different approaches to nutritional therapy: Nutrition and Health Coaching, and Functional Nutrition. Whilst both approaches aim to restore optimal health, there are some key differences between them.

Who benefits the most from nutrition?

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Whilst many people can be helped to improve their health, clients who do best under the care of a nutritionist:

are interested in discovering the underlying cause of their problems
are motivated to play an active role in their own healing process
would prefer to reduce their reliance on unnecessary pharmaceutical drugs
are willing to make the necessary dietary and lifestyle changes to support their health and well-being

Nutrition and Health Coaching

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Nutrition and Health coaching, practiced by Sophie Jones, combines nutritional therapy and life coaching to enable people to bring about lasting change to their diet and lifestyle. The approach works because while addressing dietary issues, it also focuses how we think about food, our body and our lifestyle - recognizing how these factors change our biochemistry and influence our state of health as much as our diet. Individualized programmes for optimum health are developed with the client, they can cover areas such as; dietary recommendations, improved understanding, getting motivated, removing barriers to change and building practical skills.

Functional Nutrition

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Functional Nutrition, practiced by Harriet Kaushal, combines the new, science-based discipline of Functional Medicine with Nutritional Therapy. Functional Medicine works by identifying and rectifying the various physiological imbalances that lie behind chronic health problems, rather than merely concentrating on symptoms: no two people are the same, even though their symptoms might appear to be.

The key to Functional Nutrition is to pinpoint which imbalances affect you as an individual. To do this, Harriet uses questionnaire evaluation, laboratory testing and spends time just talking. Using all these vital clues, she then develops and guides you through your own targeted programme to optimise your health as much as possible.

Professional Standards

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The nutritionists at the Beacon Clinic in Malvern are both full members of the British Association for Applied Nutrition and Nutritional Therapy (BANT) and follow their Code of Practice. BANT maintains standards of ethics and practice to ensure health and safety of the public. Both nutritionists are also fully insured.