In this course you will:

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• Learn the historical balance of macronutrients and micronutrients human dietary anthropology.

• Learn the unique new deficiencies and imbalances that have arisen since the industrial revolution, and especially since the mid-twentieth century.

• Review the most common deficiencies and imbalances present in the modern North American patient.

• Learn a general but flexible corrective nutritional regimen for the average modern patient appropriate for most individuals.

• Study imbalances, dietary patterns, and the pathologies that most often accompany them, including The SAD Diet (Standard American Diet) pattern; The Disordered Eating pattern 3) The Junk-Food Vegetarian pattern 4) The Stress-Carbohydrate pattern 5) Insulin Resistance pattern and 6) the Food Intolerance pattern.

• We will review the role and actions of the most important nutrients in the protocols in that regimen, including protein, meat, iron, carnitine, essential fatty acids, magnesium, calcium, vitamin D, and the B vitamins.

• Learn the foods which are highest in the above nutrients, and receive food lists that can be used as patient handouts.

• Learn specific nutritional protocols to support normal immunity, reduce inflammation, correct insulin resistance and improve diabetic control, correct female hormone imbalances, and address chronic stress or fatigue.

• Learn strategies for making dietary changes by reinforcing the positive urge for nutrition rather than deprivational strategies of elimination.

• Learn the positive vital intent of cravings, and how to satisfying them with authentic nutrition.

• Study a set of unusually nutrient dense but common and inexpensive foods that can be added to the habitual diet to increase nutrition and satisfaction.

• Learn simple recipes that can be incorporated for regular use to increase minerals, antioxidants, and fiber in the diet