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4:00AM Monday Jul 13, 2009 By Maria Slade An Auckland training institution has begun the country's first degree in naturopathy, a move welcomed by the natural health industry as a further step towards legitimation.
Wellpark College of Natural Therapies starts offering the three-year bachelor of naturopathy degree from February.
Principal Phillip Cottingham said it had taken around five years to jump through all the regulatory hoops and meet the New Zealand Qualifications Authority's standards.
The dietary supplements, or bioactives, industry is conservatively estimated to be worth $760 million annually with much of that production exported. It is keen to maintain its momentum by gaining recognition as a legitimate part of the health sector.
Cottingham said naturopathy aimed to promote and maintain health, and complemented traditional medicine.
The degree course would cover basic medical science such as anatomy, physiology, pathology and health assessment, and students would be trained to know when to refer patients for more sophisticated treatments.
Lani Lopez, one of New Zealand's few degree-qualified naturopaths, gained her qualification from an Australian university by correspondence.
She said that 10 to 15 years ago there was "a definite line" between naturopaths and orthodox mainstream medicine. Now doctors would ring her to discuss a patient's treatment.
Lopez said traditional medicine could only do so much for some chronic illnesses and people were using supplements to manage their conditions alongside prescribed pharmaceuticals.
It’s hard to know when it’s safe to leave the house to get the kids to daycare some mornings. The news is constantly bombarding us with the cold, hard facts about the latest flu epidemic, yet it seems no one is really sure how to successfully avoid or manage this apparently pervasive virus.
I find this particularly troubling, as the kids seem to pick up absolutely everything, bring it home to the rest of the household, spend a few days recovering, head off fit and healthy back to daycare, then whammy…the tiresome, and now increasingly worrisome cycle begins again. It becomes an issue with regards to having other children over to play, and you can just scratch the Sunday roast with the grandparents – they are holed up indoors avoiding our family of high-risk little bug-catchers.
What can I do to protect my family and maintain at least some semblance of a social life?
29/4/09: More than 10,000 New Zealanders are diagnosed as suffering from IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome), Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis. And that's only those who are diagnosed. Many more are suffering from these common inflammatory and debilitating complaints.
Who do you know who's struggling with one or more of the following symptoms? Bloating, tiredness, excessive flatulence, stomach pain or tummy tenderness, diarrhoea and constipation. All of these are common digestive complaints that can characterise these conditions. Now New Zealand research by a team from Auckland University and published within the British Journal of Nutrition, offers some hope. It turns out that Turmeric, incidentally a key ingredient in the formula of Res-V Plus, may be the answer sufferers have been looking for.
Scientists have found a substance in red wine that is slowing down the aging process in mice. Will it someday lengthen the lives of humans, too? Morley Safer reports.
TVONE News told the story last night about the ‘amazing’ substance that has been isolated in red wine and how one day scientists think it might be possible to put it into a pill for the benefit of mankind
Reuters
Thursday November 29, 2007
New compounds that act like the red wine ingredient resveratrol may offer a new formula for type 2 diabetes drugs and other age-related diseases, researchers at US drug maker Sirtris Pharmaceuticals said.
ScienceDaily (Mar. 27, 2008) — Rochester researchers showed for the first time that a natural antioxidant found in grape skins and red wine can help destroy pancreatic cancer cells by reaching to the cell's core energy source, or mitochondria, and crippling its function.
Jacob Gaffney
Posted: Wednesday, June 04, 2008
A team of scientists report that the chemical resveratrol, commonly found in red wine, can help keep heart tissues young and delay aging—and at levels lower than previously expected, according to a study on mice released on June 4. The researchers found the health benefits at levels equivalent to three or four glasses of red wine a day in humans, but they believe that a glass of red wine a day might provide all the resveratrol the heart needs.
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