prevent disease with nutrition

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Written By Emma Alexander-Cook

prevent disease with nutrition

‘The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but will rather cure and prevent disease with nutrition’ Thomas Edison

Doctors have the ability to save and prolong the lives of their patients with the drugs that they prescribe. I can’t imagine a world without prescription drugs but that is all I know. I am the generation that was given antibiotics as if they were candy and whatever you went to the doctor for, a dose of antibiotics would surely cure what you had gone in for. Today we realise antibiotics are not the cure for everything and scientists now see links with antibiotics, our gut and health issues.

In my experience, Doctor’s haven’t tried to cure or prevent disease but treat the symptoms of it. I remember one Doctor before I was discovered to have a problem with gluten, telling me that food issues were all in someone’s head. Some part of me realised that the food I was eating was causing the problem, but I was not a medical expert, and that is why I went for the tests. I didn’t feel I had the right to correct the Doctor. After all, he was the one who had studied for years. Today I realise I should have trusted my voice and spoke up about my own experiences.

I love being a Health Coach. I love working with individuals and helping them discover what works for them and celebrating with them when they reach their health and wellness goals. We can all be our own experts on our own human frame and this is why I enjoy working with clients. I help them discover that they are the experts on themselves and that they can have a voice when discussing their own health issues with their team of Doctors.

Emma Alexander-Cook

My name's Emma. I've been living gluten-free for over 25 years, and I've been dairy-free for over five years.

Health and Auto-immune Diseases

I have auto-immune diseases and expected to be on medicine for the rest of my life, but I didn't want to live like that. My rheumatology Doctor was so supportive of the change I wanted to make, and with their help, I now manage my auto-immune diseases by being strict with my diet.

It can be quite frightening when you first find out you have to change the way you eat but for some of us' Food is our medicine.'

I have several websites, write blogs, and I'm currently in the process of writing a book.

I trained to be Holistic Health Coach, Meditation and Mindfulness Teacher and Certified Gluten Free Practitioner in order to heal myself, my family and others who find themselves on the same journey as myself.

Websites include:

www.emmaalexandercook.com

www.savemoneyfreezefood.com

www.livefreelovelife.com

www.cooksprojects.com

Photography

Our love for photography started on our travels. We wanted to capture images of the areas we travelled to both for our own records and for our family back at home. Some of these images were reproduced as watercolours. Our favourite images we display at home and friends often asked where we had purchased the pictures! Now you can purchase them online directly from us.

Coaching and Consultancy

Previously an IT Manager my skill set has come in very handy as I am both a Health Coach and also offer consultancy for small business starts up and fellow Health Coaches. This has included building websites and online profiles.

Our Family

Family is everything to me! We have a family of four boys where the age difference between the youngest and the eldest is 18 years. Two of our sons are also Gluten Free and Dairy Free. Emma is a Health Coach who specialises in helping individuals and families achieve their health and wellness goals. Ian runs his own business which began developing a Race Timer for diecast model cars.

http://www.glutenfreedairyfreefamily.com
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