Nutritional therapy in Leeds
We are what we eat and research shows that more than 80% of the British population are not getting the recommended daily amount of essential vitamins and minerals.
Nutritional therapy uses the science of food and diet to promote the body's ability to heal itself, maintain good health, achieve optimal fitness and to prevent disease.
Trained therapists will identify nutritional deficiencies as well as food allergies and intolerances to food.
The treatment is more than just healthy eating, it will involve changing the diet and may also include vitamin and mineral nutritional supplements.
- What can nutritional therapy help?
- Nutritional therapy in Leeds at the Good Health Centre
- Nutritional therapy
- What to expect
- Cautions and care
- Training and regulation
- Find out more
What can nutritional therapy help?
Nutritional therapists often work with patients who have long-term health problems that have been difficult to treat with conventional medicine. However nutritional therapy can be beneficial for anyone who wants to improve their health and well-being.
- Allergies and food intolerances.
- Digestive problems and bowel disorders including irritable bowel disease and bloating.
- Lack of energy, tiredness and chronic fatigue.
- Stress, depression and anxiety.
- Hormonal imbalances, menstrual disorders and infertility.
- Skin disorders.
- Poor resistance to infection.
- Migraine, chronic headache and sinus congestion.
- Weight management
Nutritional therapy in Leeds at the Good Health Centre
Dr Sonia Williams
MBE, PhD, Hon MFPH, Dip ION
Catherine Barker
Nutritional therapy
Nutritional therapy is not just about a healthy diet. It aims to stimulate the body's self-healing ability by providing the correct nutrition for an individual's needs and cleansing the system of accumulated waste and toxins.
Each individual's needs are unique, depending on their genetic make-up, lifestyle demands, diet and environment. Nutritional therapists identify the best blend of diet and food supplements to help achieve maximum health and well-being.
What to expect
When you make your appointment, you will be asked to complete a questionnaire about your health, symptoms and lifestyle and return it to the clinic before the first visit.
Your first visit will normally lasts one hour and consists of further investigation into your health and preparation of a tailor-made nutritional programme. If necessary, tests may be suggested to confirm the nature of the problem. Recommendations will then be made about your diet, any necessary specific supplements or herbal remedies and other lifestyle changes such as physical exercise, or other ways in which you can promote your own good health.
Further consultations last about 30 minutes each. Typically three to four visits are needed over three to six months. These follow-up consultations can often take place by telephone.
Cautions and care
Nutritional therapy is a powerful, safe, natural and effective approach to improving health and well-being. However some vitamins can be toxic when taken in
large doses. It's important to follow your practitioner's advice, if you take extra different supplement mixes you could be accidentally overdosing on certain micronutrients.
Pregnant and breast-feeding women, children and people with a serious illness should always seeks get medical advice.
Training and regulation
No single body regulates the nutritional therapy profession. There are a number of professional associations that are working together as the Nutritional Therapy
Council (NTC) to develop common standards of training, practice and ethics and one register of practitioners who all meet a required standard.
The therapists working at the Good Health Centre are all fully trained and registered with the NTC
Find out more
Dr Sonia Williams
www.happyhealthyliving.co.uk
The Nutritional Therapy Council, a regulatory body
www.nutritionaltherapycouncil.org.uk
British Association for Nutritional Therapy
www.bant.org.uk
International Guild of Professional Practitioners
www.igpp.co.uk
Register of Nutritional Therapists
www.nutritionalmed.co.uk
