Re: Are their any college courses or certification programs that offer this?

February 18, 2010

I'm reviewing nutritional therapy right now. I saw the bloodtype diet

recommendation on one of their pages and became highly skeptical. I'm looking at

it more and do feel there are a lot of good recommendations. The bloodtype diet

is not apart of their required or even recommended reading.

This does appear to be a very dense list of books to read. I think someone that

does this will be far ahead of most health practiciners that had been schooling

for 10 years. It would probably take a good 2 years to fully review all of the

books and pass the program. Probably a total of 5 years to really digest all of

the information. In the meantime after the first two years I can see someone

running their own successful clinic. Within 10 years you'll have every lesson

memorized with quick referencing here and there, 30 years of knowledge, and

plenty of experience to back it all up. Beats the slow pace of schooling. If

this were all put into a degree program it would cost over 80,000 dollars. Maybe

up to 200,000. This program does not appear to include acupuncture, psychology,

muscle knot release therapy, exercise physiology, injury therapy, or

chiropractic care. That would be something.

Dan Holt

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Sent: Thu, February 18, 2010 10:02:48 AM

Subject: Are their any college courses or certification programs that offer

this?

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I'd like to get into a quick and easy program that teaches you the signs,

symptoms, causes, and remedies to a long list of nutritional problems. Then

explanations on how to diganose them from tests to muscle testing. I would like

if high quality affordable whole food sources were used like Standard Process'

organs and glands, fermented codliver oil, recommendations for conventional

medicine, necessary hospital care, herbs, what to look for in meat/produce/

agriculture such as types of organic/biodynamic guidelines, caloric intake for

different lifestyles and activities, bodyfat percentage, toxins, equipmenet like

the expensive stuff Mercola and RadianstLifeCatalog sell, whole food eating,

nutritional biochemistry, acupuncture meridian system, psychology, psychiatry,

yoga/breathing, healthy choices for different careers, human physiology,

pictures, the whole shibang. Has anybody made a fat book like that? Healing is

so much easier when you have all of the

resources at your disposal.

It'd be cool if there was a book like that and also included seperate classes so

you can get a certification with it. Heard of anything?

www.nutritionalther apy.com sounds like the best choice but they talk about a

lot of different faux diet plans and crappy book recommendations on their

web-sites which puts greats doubts in me. That and they don't give you a good

description of just what they teach either.

Dan Holt

February 18, 2010

I would think there are more effective way to condense the reading sources even

more. You can learn just a couple principals from one book in a few chapters

that entire books are written about...

For example: weight loss. You get so many different viewpoints on how to lose

weight. Big fat books that take many hours to completely read with lots of

unnesessary facts/reasearch that aren't all that effective.

Or, you can stick to a couple key sentences.Â This shouldÂ all been in one book

while it's usually spread out in several books.Â Then this one book would offer

simple science on it:

body fat percentage

weight

activity level

activities

goals

aerobic/anaerobic activities and macronutrient energy intake/expenditure

13.963 cal for every pound of lean body mass (bodyfat never gets factored in).

This is your base metabolic rate. When you're awake but not doing anything you

burn only a few more calories than when you sleep. Sleep and Wake state are both

base metabolic rate. Digestion increases metabolic rate slightly. Resting

Metabolic rate occurs 12 hours after no eating and during the time you're not

doing any activities other than being asleep or being awake. It's only slightly

lower than base metabolic rate. If you practice slow breathing and meditate you

can bring your caloric expenditure far below your base metabolic rate during

that activity. Women generally carry more bodyfat because they have breasts/more

fatty depositsÂ and produce less testoserone than mean. As people get older they

produce less testosterone and so their bodyfat percentage rises. If they

exercise they can bring themselves back to carrying more lean body mass and

living longer. When you

exercise you promote serotonin and human growth hormone. Depending on your

activity their is a certain intensity. Low to a little above medium intensities

are considered aerobic. Above those levels and it becomes anaerobic. What this

means is that the lower intensities have a greater percentage of aerobic (with

air) energy being used and the more intense activities burn a greater percentage

of anaerobic (without air) energy. AerobicÂ uses free fatty acids

andÂ intramuscular triglycerides as it'sÂ fuel source. Anaerobic activityÂ uses

blood glucose, muscle glycogen, and liver glycogen as it's fuel source.

Anaerobic activity will convert dietary/muscle/organ proteins into glucose if

blood/glycogen/muscle glycogen is not available. 42% of protein is dissipated in

order to metabolize the other 58% into glucose. All activities of a sedentary

person would be considered aerobic. ThereforeÂ a sedentary personÂ could take in

a high fat, lower protein, low

carbohydrate as their intake. An active person want to take in 45% + carbs as

their intake. During certain activities it come go as high as 80% carbs. The

body can store 15g of carbs per a pound of bodyweight for a highly active

person.

A person wants 0.36g of protein per a pound of bodyweight. They want to spread

this evenly throughout a 24 hours period.

This may not be completely accurate, but their should only be a 10% margin of

error for your average healthy individual in caloric expenditure.

Then their could be a list of what all the different macronutrients are composed

of. There can beÂ a list of activites with aerobic/anaerobic/calories

burned/heart rate. There can be a comprehensive explanation on ketosis and fat

adaptation. I've had to readÂ ten different books and 30 chapters to acquire all

of the information. Not to mention all of the web-site surfing.