Food For Health

Nutrition Courses

Course Tutor Margaret MacMillan MNIMH

I am one of the herbalists at Herbs for Health, and have had a lifelong (since the age of 12 anyway!) consuming interest in food and nutrition. I consider it, as all herbalists do, to be fundamental to the maintenance and repairing of health, and hope with these courses to enthuse others with a renewed interest and appetite for the good things that nature has provided for us.

Food for Health

This is an introductory six week course aimed at looking at nutrition in a holistic way, considering how the interaction between people and food is as important as the food itself. We look at how people differ in their make-up and therefore their nutritional needs, and see how the 'where, when, why and how' we eat can be as important as 'what' we eat.

In looking at what we eat we consider how the nutritional value of food is affected by its quality in terms of growing, buying and preparing.

Over the six weeks we investigate different nutrients such as protein, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, minerals and phytonutrients: which foods contain them, why they are important, how to choose foods appropriate to the individual and how introducing more variety into our diets can keep us healthy and strong. There will be foods to look at and taste