"The Doctor of the future will give no medicine,
but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame.
In Diet and in the prevention of Disease."
In Diet and in the prevention of Disease."
About Dr. Vendryes
Born 26th Sept 1947, in the Jamaican inner city community of Woodford Park, Kingston, one of eight children to Horace and Maria Vendryes. Now diceased his beloved parents continue to be a major source of inspiration and motivation to him..
A graduate of the University of the West Indies and of the Royal Collegeof Anesthetists of England, Dr. Vendryes initially trained and worked as a specialist in anesthesia and intensive care.
Following his conventional medical training however, Dr. Vendryes also studied nutritional and herbal medicine, mind/bodymedicine, hypnosis, psychotherapy,, Yoga and other complementary approaches to healing.
Since 1990 Dr. Vendryes has transformed his medical practice into holistic and integrative medicine that combines both conventional and alternative based modalities. Dr. Vendryes employs an approach to health care that highlights the intimate relationship that exists between mind, body and spirit and the need to address the whole person not just his or her symptoms. His focus is on health and disease prevention rather than on illness. His vast experience and knowledge allows him to help anyone who comes for treatment, through his ability to recognize all the factors that contribute to the problem and to intervene with the appropriate therapy. Dr. Vendryes challenges his clients to take the responsibility for their health and acts as a mentor and coach in helping them to achieve optimal wellness.
Through his weekly newspaper health column and weekly health talk radio show both named "An Ounce of Prevention" he reaches out to tens of thousands of people around the world with his wellness message. He has published two books of the same name - An Ounce pf Prevention.
In 1993 Dr. Vendryes was introduced to Herbalife International and their nutritional and wellness products. He experienced extraordinary health benefits and now continues to use Herbalife products every day while recommending them to all his patients. In 1999 he became Jamaicas first member of the company's prestigious International Presidents Team.
Night Eating Syndrome
What you eat is indeed critical to your health, but did you know that when you eat is also very important. Research has shown that the food you eat earlier in the day is digested and metabolized better than food eaten later in the day or at night. There is great wisdom in the old advice: eat breakfast like a King, lunch like a Prince and dinner like a Pauper.
Unfortunately few people follow that principle. Doctors have now recognized abnormal eating at night as a medical disorder called Night Eating Syndrome (NES) that may affect as least 2% of western populations.
WHAT is NES
People who suffer from NES generally skip breakfast, and go for several hours in the day before having their first meal. They limit the amount of food they eat throughout the day and then compensate by binging just before bedtime or by waking up in the middle of the night in order to eat. This pattern of self-starvation in the day and over-consumption at night becomes a long-term habit with disastrous consequences to health.
Many sufferers feel as if they cannot fall asleep unless they eat right before going to bed and others are even unaware that they are eating at night because they wake up and eating in an almost sleepwalking state. Late-night binges usually involve eating mostly carbohydrates like sugars and starch through the night over several hours with many visits to the fridge and kitchen. There are many problems associated with this condition.
DEPRESSION IS a very common disorder that causes much suffering for large numbers of people and their loved ones.
In the US for example about 20 million Americans are thought to suffer from depressive disorders.
Researchers claim that only a quarter of individuals with clinical depression seek treatment, and that only 10 per cent of them receive adequate care.
FOR OVER 15 years I have enjoyed a vegetarian diet and found it to be a powerful way to promote good health. The vegetarian eating pattern is based on a wide variety of foods that are satisfying, delicious, and healthful.
Vegetarians avoid meat, fish, and poultry. Those who include dairy products and eggs in their diets are called lacto-ovo vegetarians. Vegans (pure vegetarians) eat no meat, fish, poultry, eggs, or dairy products.
I often eat nuts and recommend them as healthy additions to our daily diet. Interestingly, not all nuts are really nuts.
Contrary to popular belief, peanuts are not true nuts, but legumes, and soy nuts are not nuts, but beans. Nonetheless, they possess many of the same health benefits as the true tree nuts.
Nuts have good nutritional value as the table below demonstrates.
Tea is the most widely consumed beverage on earth and has an over 4000-year history as a health promoting drink. The tea plant (Camellia sinensis) produces green tea, black tea and oolong tea.
The difference in these types of tea is a result of the different ways the tea leaves are processed after harvesting. Eighty percent of the tea currently available in Jamaica and around the world is black tea.
