Wellness is a state of well-being which encompasses both physical and emotional health. Apart from our health, wellness is affected by our attitude to external factors and their influence over us such as our natural and political environment and social situation.

Good nutrition for your family begins with an understanding of what foods and cooking methods are and are not healthful.

The Mediterranean diet is considered by many experts to be the world’s most healthful.

Following are two representations of the Mediterranean Diet, the first produced by Oldways, the Harvard School of Public Health, and the European Office of the World Health Organization in 1993, the second in 2008.

This pyramid is universally recognized as the “gold standard” eating pattern that promotes lifelong good health.

Good nutrition is a pivotal factor in achieving physical health, however nutrition is controlled by factors other than diet alone such as:

1. individual metabolic characteristics
2. neurological activity
3. endocrine function
4. bioavailability of nutrients in foods consumed
5. specific dynamic action of foods
6. absorption at the intestinal level
7. utilization at the cellular level
8. synergism and antagonism between minerals and vitamins
9. environmental pollutants
10. stress

Body Clinic offers advice on diet, nutrition, weight loss, detoxification, alternative cancer therapies, as well as presenting healthful cooking lessons.