Say No To Arthritis|Patrick Holford 0749920130

||boek: Say No To Arthritis|The Proven Drug Free Guide to Preventing and Relieving Arthritis|Judy Piatkus Publishers

||door: Patrick Holford

||taal: en
||jaar: 1999
||druk: 1st edition
||pag.: 231p
||opm.: paperback|used

||isbn: 0-7499-2013-0
||code: 2:000331

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The Institute for Optimum Nutrition is at the forefront of research into how good nutrition can enable you to reach your maximum potential for health, vitality, and longevity. Optimum Nutrition is a revolution in healthcare. Following the success of The Optimum Nutrition Bible by Patrick Holford, founder of the Institute for Optimum Nutrition, Piatkus are delighted to announce the latest addition to their nutrition list.

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I liked it [2013-10-03]

Excellent book to help you understand the do's and don'ts when dealing with arthritis. What I particularly liked was learning of the various supplements you can buy that will greatly aid in alleviating your joint pain.

dutchee44 [source: https--www.amazon.com.be]

Comprehensive therapy for Arthritis [2012-08-06]

I really like this author. He's a physician specializing in nutrition, a Nutritionist (not a dietitian). In easy to understand language he explains what bodily changes have occurred to cause the arthritis - Osteoarthritis and Rheumatoid arthritis. Then he explains the vitamins, supplements and foods needed to correct the imbalance. Glucosamine is just one of many nutrients needed. Medication just eases the pain a little, has side effects and does little to cure. Physical therapy helps but it is just a small part of the equation towards wellness. Surgery fixes the worst arthritic joint. Meanwhile the arthritic process continues in other joints. Dr. Holford offers a full spectrum of therapies that collectively over time (be patient) can bring true improvement. If you were even 25% better with less pain would it be worth the effort of taking all those vitamins? There's hope for significant improvement.

Mary Beth [source: https--www.amazon.com.be]

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NUTRITIONAL THERAPIST & TEACHER

At the start of his career Patrick Holford, BSc, DipION, FBANT, NTCRP, opened a health shop and clinic in High Wycombe where he developed a method for treating people with nutritional therapy. This was a truly pioneering and ground-breaking approach at that time. In 1982 he took the knowledge gained from his clinical practice and considered that maybe sub-optimum nutrition was the cause of diabetes, heart disease, even cancer. This was before anyone had heard of omega-3, antioxidants, zinc, chromium, magnesium, homocysteine or the ideas that nutrition affects the brain, or could possibly prevent diseases such as cancer. All these, and other ideas such as milk as promoter of breast and prostate cancer growth, were considered outrageous.

He started in the field of psychology and then became a student of two of the leading pioneers in nutrition medicine and psychiatry - the late Dr Carl Pfeiffer and Dr Abram Hoffer. In 1984 he founded the Institute for Optimum Nutrition (ION), now degree-accredited, to train a new profession - the first generation of nutritional therapists and to define what it means to be optimally nourished. His mentor, twice Nobel Prize winner Dr Linus Pauling (see picture), was patron.

WRITER & HEALTH AND WELLNESS SPOKESPERSON

In 1998 Patrick left ION to focus on writing down what he'd learnt and his first book, the Optimum Nutrition Bible, was published, selling over 2 million copies and catalysing a global revolution. He's now written over 45 books translated into over 30 languages (see full list). He has attracted many supporters throughout his career for example Professor David Smith, University of Oxford: 'Patrick Holford is a superb communicator and teacher and his writings and teachings are soundly based on the scientific and medical literature and is very much at the forefront of nutritional medicine'.

Never afraid to stick his head above the parapet, he also championed nutritional medicine and fought the tide of legislation that big pharma (pharmaceutical industry) used to stop natural medicine becoming the new paradigm. He was once described at the 'original disruptor', challenging inaccurate and outdated concepts within nutritional medicine. An explanation of some of the debates during the noughties, can be found in his report Holford Myths.

He has helped numerous people throughout the world with their health issues, through his books and teachings One of his current focusses is on helping people with mental health issues and in 2003 he founded the Brain Bio Centre at ION and in 2007 he founded the Food for the Brain Foundation. He has advocated homocysteine-lowering B vitamins for the prevention of dementia, working closely with David Smith, Emeritus Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Oxford, whose research has reported substantial reduction in the rate of brain shrinkage with B vitamins. He follows closely the results of randomised trials. One published in 2020 in the British Medical Journal's Journal of Neurologicial Neurosurgery and Pyschiatry concluded 'Notably, homocysteine-lowering treatment (B vitamins) seems the most promising intervention for Alzheimers dementia prevention'.

In 2014, Patrick was inducted to the Orthomolecular Medicine Hall of Fame, joining his mentors Drs Linus Pauling and Abram Hoffer. He has also been awarded an honorary Diploma from ION and is also an Honorary Fellow of BANT. (The British Association of Nutritional Therapists). He is also a retired visiting professor at the University of Teeside.

PASSION FOR HEALTHY EATING AND WELLNESS

He is passionate about good food and healthy eating and for a long time has been a proponent of the Low-GL Diet (GL means Glycaemic Load), which is a unit of measurement that tells you exactly what a food will do to your blood sugar. Often ahead of the curve, he has been vocally 'anti-free sugar' for years and has helped to raise awareness of its dangers. He has written a range of cookery books full of tasty, nutrient-rich, sugar-free recipes. Many of these are now available to members of the Holford Health Club through their member's Dashboard.

VITAMINC4COVID

Patrick advocates high dose vitamin C as an effective anti-viral agent and has promoted the use of vitamin C for COVID-19 prevention and treatment using intravenous vitamin C for critically ill covid patients and high dose use to shorten duration and severity at the onset of colds and flu. He is founder of www.vitaminC4covid.com and co-author of two reviews published in peer-reviewed journal Nutrients, on vitamins, vitamin C and COVID-19. You can follow this campaign in the Covid topic.

HOLISTIC APPROACH TO HEALTH

Patrick takes a holistic approach to health. He believes that as important as good nutrition, exercise, reducing stress, not smoking and creating a toxin-free environment are - our state of mind and spirit also have an enormous effect on our ability to be healthy and recover health, and this should not be underestimated. He teaches that we are physical, emotional, sensual, intellectual and spiritual beings living on the Earth in a human society, and understanding this connectedness is vital to feel fully alive, awake, connected on all levels and living a purposeful life.

TEACHER, SPEAKER & AMBASSADOR

Patrick regularly appears in the press. View recent interviews and articles.

Now in his 60s, he helps people transform their lives and feel energised and vibrant, through his health retreats. He is CEO and Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of Food for the Brain Foundation and is involved in their dementia prevention project. He is currently on the Editorial Board for the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service.

He also speaks nationwide and internationally. A gifted speaker, he has become an all-round ambassador for natural health and wellbeing, making the science of nutrition accessible to everyone.

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Patrick Holford is a British author and entrepreneur who endorses a range of controversial vitamin tablets. As an advocate of alternative nutrition and diet methods, he appears regularly on television and radio in the UK and abroad. He has 36 books in print in 29 languages. His business career promotes a wide variety of alternative medical approaches such as orthomolecular medicine, many of which are considered pseudoscientific by mainstream science and medicine.

Holford's claims about HIV and autism are not in line with modern medical thought, and have been criticised for putting people in danger and damaging public health.

In 2006, Holford was discovered to be using his PR advisor to delete critical content from his Wikipedia page.

Career

Holford obtained a BSc in experimental psychology from the University of York in 1979. As a psychology student, he became interested in the biochemistry of mental health problems. His research brought him in contact with Carl Pfeiffer and Abram Hoffer, both of whom claimed success in treating mental illness with nutritional therapy.

In 1984, Holford founded the Institute for Optimum Nutrition (ION). At that institute, he has worked on nutritional approaches to clinical depression, schizophrenia, ADHD and eating disorders. In 1995, the Board of Trustees of ION (of which he was a director) awarded him an Honorary Diploma in Nutritional Therapy.

He retired as Director of ION in 1998 and was awarded ION's Award for Excellence in 2009.

He was the chief executive officer and co-founder (with Professor André Tylee of the Institute of Psychiatry) of the special interest group that developed into Food for the Brain Foundation, a registered charity which has the stated aim of promoting mental health through nutrition. He was also director of the Brain Bio Centre, which specialises in a nutrition-based approach to mental health problems.

Holford is a Fellow of the British Association for Nutritional Therapy (BANT), one of a number of professional bodies that seek to represent nutritional therapists in the UK. He is registered with the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council. He is also the Patron of the South African Association of Nutritional Therapy and the Irish Association of Nutritional Therapy.

Between 2007 and 2008, Holford was Visiting Professor at Teesside University and in 2007 was appointed as Head of Science and Education at Biocare, a nutritional supplement company.

Holford has 36 books in print in 29 languages.

Criticism

Holford has been the subject of criticism for his promotion of medically dubious techniques and products including hair analysis, his support of the now struck-off doctor Andrew Wakefield, and advocating the use of "non-drug alternatives for mental health" for which he has been given an award by the Church of Scientology-backed Citizens Commission on Human Rights.

In 2006, Patrick Holford was discovered to be using his PR advisor to delete content on his Wikipedia page which was critical.

HIV

Holford's claim in The New Optimum Nutrition Bible that "AZT, the first prescribable anti-HIV drug, is potentially harmful, and proving less effective than vitamin C" has been criticised by Ben Goldacre. Goldacre writes that Holford based this conclusion on a non-clinical study where "you tip lots of vitamin C onto HIV-infected cells and measure a few things related to HIV replication". Goldacre notes that the paper does not compare vitamin C to AZT for efficacy. He argues that "Holford was guilty of at least incompetence in claiming that this study demonstrated vitamin C to be a better treatment than AZT." Prof David Colquhoun argues that Holford's "advocacy of vitamin C as better than conventional drugs to treat Aids is truly scary".

Holford replied to The Guardian newspaper that:

"As [Goldacre] well knows, the author of the research - Dr Raxit Jariwalla - wrote to the Guardian (January 20, 2005) the last time Goldacre made this claim, to confirm that my statement is correct on the basis of two [non-clinical] studies on HIV-infected cells. The real crime here is that no full-scale human trials have been funded on vitamin C to follow up Jariwalla's important finding because it is non-patentable and hence not profitable. Goldacre seems unconcerned about the way commercial interests distort scientific research."

Goldacre replied that Raxit Jariwalla was a senior researcher at the Rath Research Institute in California - connected to vitamin salesman Matthias Rath. Matthias Rath has been linked to the previous policy of the South African government to deny anti-viral drugs to HIV positive patients.

Autism

Holford believes that there is a potential link in some susceptible children between the MMR vaccine and the development of autism-like symptoms. This is against the overwhelming consensus of the scientific community and many high-quality empirical studies that demonstrate there is no such link. The Wakefield et al. paper upon which this hypothesis was based has been discredited by the scientific community, was retracted from the journal, and 10 of the 12 co-authors have formally disavowed the paper's conclusions. Furthermore, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, the UK National Health Service and the Cochrane Library review have all concluded that there is no evidence of a link between the MMR vaccine and autism. (See MMR vaccine controversy)

The Cochrane Library's systematic review also concluded that "The design and reporting of safety outcomes in MMR vaccine studies, both pre- and post- marketing, are largely inadequate...." Nonetheless, it noted that the vaccine has prevented diseases that still carry a heavy burden of death and complications, and that the lack of confidence in the vaccine has damaged public health.

Catherine Collins, chief dietician at St George's Hospital, reported that after following Holford's advice to adopt a restricted diet, a young autistic girl participating in one of Holford's experiments suffered dramatic weight loss and sleep problems. Holford dismissed the allegations as "professional jealousy", stating that "This girl hasn't suffered. She's got better and is behaving better. Her parents are delighted with the results. It's only Catherine Collins who is not." Holford claimed that the girl was already a poor sleeper, and that when placed on a less restrictive diet, she was able to regain the weight she had lost.

Advertising

There has also been an adjudication by the Advertising Standards Authority against Patrick Holford's 100% Health leaflet. "On this point, the ad breached CAP Code clauses 3.1 (Substantiation), 7.1 (Truthfulness), 50.1 (Health & beauty products and therapies - General) and 50.20 (Health & beauty products and therapies - Vitamins, minerals and other food supplements)." A previous adjudication by the ASA also went against Mr Holford. Mr Holford has also been the subject of at least two adverse rulings by the Advertising Standards Authority of South Africa.

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