Chinese and Western Diet Concepts

Cost:
No Equipment Kit: £95

Duration:
This is a 1-day course running from 9:45am to 5pm.

This food and diet course teaches you the knowledge and skills to understand and analyse a client’s diet and make recommendations based on their existing food diary. (Please note this course does not award a nutrition qualification, it is aimed at TCM and western analysis of dietary issues for existing health therapists)

The aim is to gain an understanding of the key components of diet and food requirements as pertains to health and disease.
We include explanations of western diets and healthcare accepted currently, and have in depth discussions of Chinese food theory in relation to Traditional Chinese Medicine. This will cover body balancing and energetics as well as the theory of using food as a herbal medicine to treat symptoms of disease.
We will show you our innovative and unique system of analysing a client’s current diet and calculating the balance of the energetic systems and ways of altering this to bring them back into harmony.
A 6-hour CPD Certificate is awarded on completion.
This course does not award a qualification and does not have a Diploma option.

Wheat, other grains, carbohydrates and sugars
The processing of fructose
Krebs cycle
Diet as a short and long term change
The 43 day re-programming cycle
Why modern ‘diets’ don’t work
Weight loss
Diabetes Type 2
Product sourcing
Fats vs Carbohydrates
Paleo Diet
Food diaries
Toxic and inflammatory foods
Chinese dietry concepts
Chinese organs and food
The 5 colours and 5 tastes of Chinese food
Traditional Chinese Medicine and food
Chinese food properties
Chinese Bone Broth
Analyzing clients for Chinese energetic and rebalancing
Hot, warm, neutral, cooling, cold food categories.

There are no prerequisites for this course but you must understand spoken and written English.