Optimum Nutrition, Prevention & Real Healthy Eating

Back in the 1970’s my two teachers Drs Linus Pauling and Abram Hoffer believed that 80% of all pharmaceutical medicines would become unnecessary if nutritional medicine became the new paradigm. They called it ‘orthomolecular medicine’ which I simplified to optimum nutrition.

“Optimum nutrition is the medicine of tomorrow,” said Pauling, who had been awarding  two Nobel prizes and 48 PhDs. When Einstein was asked if he was a genius he said ‘if you want a real genius it’s Pauling’. We were honouted to have Dr Linus Pauling as the Patron of the Institute for Optimum Nutrition, which I founded in 1984. ION is an educational charity offering degree in nutritional therapy.

However, here we are in 2022 and both the medical profession and public alike remain largely hypnotised into thinking the way forward for the prevention and treatment of 21st century killer diseases depends on drugs and now vaccines.

Our ancestors were not only fit, they ate fit food – lean meat, fish, fruit, vegetables, whole foods. Before the invention of fridges and refined food all food was fresh and whole. Before cars we burned more calories through exercise, ate a lot more fresh food and got more nutrients as a consequence. Now the average person around the world eats 24 kilos of sugar a year. This mountain of sugar is also driving weight gain. Obesity is literally widespread.

In this section I cover what it means to be optimally nourished, what to eat for ‘real’ prevention of 21st century diseases and what in my view is a ‘real’ balanced diet.

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Plant vs Animal Protein Cuts Death Risk

Eating more protein from vegetarian foods and less from animal foods is associated with a...

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The Eatwell Guide vs Perfect Diet Pyramid

PHE publish their new 'Eatwell Guide' with carbs and dairy reduced and it's remarkably similar...

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How to stay young – was BBC’s programme accurate?

Last night’s BBC programme How to Stay Young investigated how to stay young. Did you...

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Is personalised nutrition the key to losing weight?

Yesterday’s Daily Mail article and tonight’s Trust Me I’m a Doctor on BBC1, has created...

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5 ways to save NHS £6 billion – with prevention

Want to fix the NHS? It's easy to save at least £6 billion a year...

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Who’s to vote for the NHS?

If you watched the ‘leaders debate’ on the NHS you might wonder why the real...

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Forget Atkins – go ‘fishkins’ to cut cancer risk in half, shows new study

A massive study of over 77,000 people has found that eating meat increases risk for...

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No Cancer deaths by 2050?

That was the announcement in yesterday’s newspapers in response to an £80 million cut in...

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Mediterranean diet keeps you ‘genetically young’

A study in the British Medical Journal has found that the Mediterranean Diet (which is...

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Horizon – Is meat bad for you?

While it is true that vegetarians, on the whole, live longer than meat eaters the...

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A hundred sugar deaths a day in the UK

A documentary film ‘FED UP’, released this week in the US, shows how the food...

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Hall of Fame

Last month, in Vancouver Canada, Patrick Holford was inducted into the Orthomolecular Medicine Hall of...

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Which 7 a day fruit and veg give you the best protection?

A survey of 65,226 people in the UK confirms that having 7 or more servings...

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How NICE got snookered on statins

8 million people in Britain are on statins and the National Institute for Clinical Excellence...

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Is a pill for an ill making us sicker than ever?

The reason our healthcare systems are failing is that no-one is talking about the F-word...

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Healthinsight

Healthinsight is a new website which challenges the current state of medicine and treatment, edited...

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Five Foods That Are Better Than Drugs

If you take pain killers, diabetes drugs, cholesterol lowering or blood pressure medication or anti-depressants...

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My vision – A Healthy Nation

My vision in 2014 is to create a healthy nation. I myself am fit and...

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Vitamins – a waste of money?

Three simultaneously published papers appeared today in the Annals of Internal Medicine, a struggling journal...

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Safe natural ways to solve common health problems

After 30 years of clinical and research experience, and treating thousands of people, I have...

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Prevention doesn’t mean drugs

As 21st century diseases from cancer to diabetes cripple our economies, 'prevention' is on everybody's...

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Billion Dollar Scam in an article

I was recently passed an article entitled ‘Billion-Dollar Scam in a Bottle; Vitamins could be...

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Processed meats increase cancer and heart deaths

A huge study of half a million men and women finds that two hamburgers a...

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Fighting fat with a sugar tax

Today doctor's unite to recommend a tax on sugary drinks, and restrictions on advertising. About...

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This year’s Medical Journalist award winner…….

The co-author of 10 Secrets of Healthy Ageing, Jerome Burne is this year's Medical Journalist...

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Food Hospital on eczema, smelling like fish, and gall stones.

This weeks food hospital showed results in easing a lady's smell from her smelling like...

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Food Hospital on Weight loss, Gout and Depression

The Tuesday 22nd episode of Food Hospital dealt with Depression, Gout and Weight Loss. There...

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Food Hospital – Crohns, sleep eating and infertility

I enjoyed this week's (Tuesday 15th) of Food Hospital. It’s great to see major health...

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Food is medicine on TV

Last night (Tuesday 8pm) Channel 4 launched a series called Food Hospital and tackled a...

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The politics of Alzheimer’s prevention – what works?

A recent Lancet Report claims that 3 million less Alzheimer’s cases could result from dealing...

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Don’t tax fat, tax sugar

Last week’s Panorama programme called Tax the Fat explored whether we should be taxing high...

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Holford diet reduces Alzheimer’s risk

Research published today identifies ideal diet for reducing Alzheimer's risk. Those with the lowest risk...

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Naturally You – new TV series with Patrick Holford on the Home Channel, South Africa

Patrick Holford is sharing his expert advice in a 13-week TV series called Naturally You...

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Britain’s biggest diet survey defines optimum nutrition

Today we publish the 100% Health survey, based on over 55,000 people who have completed...

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Why Taking an RDA Multivitamin Won’t Save Your Life

A recent study analysed the risk, over an average of eight years, of developing, or...

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Recommended by the Daily Mail

The Daily Mail have picked ten of the best diet and nutrition books on the...