Dr. Mark Hyman of UltraWellness Presents Groundbreaking Course on Food as Medicine

LENOX, MA, Mar 31 (MARKET WIRE) --
Mounting research shows that there is no magic cure to treat heart disease,
cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer's disease, arthritis, allergies, or any other
chronic
illnesses, but increasing evidence shows that natural healing foods could be the
new
"drug" for treating, curing, and reversing most chronic illnesses.

This June Mark Hyman, M.D. of UltraWellness will be giving the keynote
speech
on the history of nutrition and medicine at a course in Baltimore called
"Food as Medicine," sponsored by the Center for Mind Body Medicine. This
coursebreaks important ground in bringing nutritional science to healthcare
professionals
in a digestible, practical, hands-on format.

"My goal is to help my patients heal and get better and I have no particular
allegiance to any type of treatment, but time after time, I find the most
powerful, fastest acting, and most dramatic results come from using natural
healing foods as our main medicine," said Hyman. "I use food as medicine, not
because I believe it is better to use natural treatments than to use drugs, but
because it works better and only has positive side effects."

The "Food as Medicine" course will address topics that most healthcare
practitioners
never learn in medical school, such as the scientific basis of nutrition as a
therapeutic tool, how we can eat natural healing foods in a sustainable way, and
how
the health of our planet has directly affected the health of our food and
bodies.

The course is based on the basic tenets of Functional Medicine and
exploresthe role of stress, nutrition, hormone balance, the health of our gut,
and
the importance of detoxification and food. It will be broken down into simple,
practical tools practitioners can use every day with their patients. It
addresses specific nutritional approaches for conditions such as cancer,
cardiovascular disease, diabetes, ADD, asthma, allergies, autoimmune diseases,
fibromyalgia, and adrenal, thyroid, and neurodegenerative problems. "The
UltraMetabolism Cookbook" will be used as a source for meals that are served
during the course.

Anybody interested in nutrition is welcome to attend the "Food as
Medicine"course and can find more information by going to
http://www.ultrawellness.com/fam.

About UltraWellness:

UltraWellness -- lifelong health and vitality -- is based on the emerging
field of
functional medicine, which addresses health problems not by treating the
symptoms,
but by balancing the 7 core underlying biological processes that govern
health.This is done by finding imbalances, getting rid of the things that cause
those
imbalances, and providing the necessary things to restore balance, which then
allows the body's natural intelligence to facilitate healing and take care of
the rest. Co-founder of UltraWellness, Mark Hyman, M.D., is a respected
medical consultant, New York Times bestselling author, lecturer, practicing
physician and leader in the emerging field of functional medicine.

Contact:

Sandi Mendelson
212-725-7707
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