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More and more people are recognising that we all have a responsibility to keep ourselves well. A trip to the doctor is sometimes necessary, nevertheless their are many occasions we can help ourselves, or try and find an alternative to taking a few pills. Most alternative therapy and complimentary medicine have one thing in common, they are more in tune with nature and that has to be good for you.

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THE ALLERGY EPIDEMIC - By Dr Keith Scott-Mumby

“The Number One Allergy Detective” (Sunday Mail )

We seem to be experiencing a massive rise in allergic phenomena. It may be appropriate to use the expression epidemic. We have become victims of our environment. This led to the term "clinical ecology" for what we are trying to do here.

In my second book ALLERGIES: WHAT EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW (Unwins 1986), I pointed out that everyone has a least one allergy. It is not necessarily important if you are not experiencing symptoms but it is very common, once you ask the right questions (Nancy Wise of the BBC World Service interviewed me and, without telling me beforehand, sent a roving microphone out onto the street outside Bush House. She was astonished to find that 18 out of 20 people stopped answered positively, they did have an allergy). Even if you think you’ve escaped, you must be aware that many of those around you are suffering.

Observing what has been happening in the last few decades, one cannot help ask the question: why? What is happening to our ecology that so many individuals should be suffering in this way?

The answer, as usual, is complex and has many aspects:

Increasing toxic environmental pollution (so-called xenobiotics)

Increased use of medical drugs (pharmaceutical pollution)

Vitiation of healthy foodstuffs (junk food)

Widespread destruction of skin and mucous membrane flora by the use of antibiotics

Intensive vaccination programmes, altering immune potential

Emergent viral diseases, known as stealth viruses

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Preventing Diabetes – A Major Key Uncovering Emotional Eating

It’s no secret that poor eating can lead to obesity, adult onset diabetes & heart disease. Why then is it so difficult to get a handle on eating issues? Dissecting disorderly eating needs good detective work. Time after time, my research in weight & addictions management uncovers a multi-faceted problem, including an interesting form of denial that is connected to a positive force. Meet Lynn-Ellen, a high profile television writer, who attended one of my workshops. Her food & beverage intake assessment made it easy to know why she was over-weight & I was surprised that she didn’t seem to know this. When I suggested some changes she became incredibly angry & went into a tirade about how stress-filled her days were & if this were the way, she certainly would have done it by now. Lynn -Ellen is an emotional eater & will need a very different approach in order to be successful at losing weight & staying away from diabetes.

For the emotional eater, the idea of changing one’s eating habits can be very frightening & even simple changes can be met with procrastination devices. The level of creativity & emotional states enlisted to protect the self from even beginning to change can be quite something to observe. Food related thoughts play out in the VCR of the mind throughout the day & especially when stress is high or when involved in triggering situations such as shopping, restaurants, social occasions & the workplace. Certain emotions have higher trigger value than others depending on the individual. Some emotional eaters trigger when home alone or in the middle of the night, even keeping food hidden under the bed to avoid bringing attention to a cupboard raid. Others eat in cars, hiding wrappings under the seat until they can dispose of them safely. Some binge going home from work, a good time to release work stress before entering home-based stress. Compulsions can be intensely draining, attacking the emotional eater with real physical and/or emotional pain. How does one begin to take control of such a complex situation & stay motivated long enough to build new habits? In my experience, I like to take the emotional eater into a nutritional self-discipline & work forward from there. It helps to know that practicing poor nutrition is not a small thing. It’s akin to digging a big dangerous hole while teetering on the edge. For most of us, there is no time to waste. The following steps are etched into the mind & traced over & over again.

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