Nutritional therapy:

Nutrition is the study of food and how we use it for growth and daily activities.
There are macro-nutrients or "big" nutrients which include proteins, carbohydrates, and fats, and there are micro-nutrients or "little" nutrients which are the vitamins and minerals that we need to be healthy.

Nutritional Therapy is the application of nutrition and dietary supplements to maintain health and treat disease. It is best to access nutrition and Nutritional Medicine on the basis of professional advice as given by a Nutritional Therapist.
Nutritional Therapy treats disease and sometimes prevents disease by looking at food as a kind of medicine which will and can influence us beneficially or badly.
Food can make us ill or healthy or prevent an illness sometimes. It takes a Nutritional Therapist at first to teach about the guidelines of healthy eating
Healthy eating and multivitamins can be fine for people when they are well but they are generally limited in treating illness. This is where professional Nutritional Therapy steps in.
Diagnosis is crucial in effective Nutritional Therapy and is the key to understanding the therapy. The three main diagnostic categories are:

The diagnosis may be clarified both by the symptom picture and sometimes by laboratory tests. Sometimes all three primary diagnoses can interact with each other.
As well as training in the traditional Naturopathic philosophy to reach a diagnosis, Nutritional Therapists use modem clinical sciences alongside the latest scientific research in nutritional medicine to advise their patients.
Treatment involves using higher range dietary supplements combined with dietary advice.
Supplements and their dosage are carefully selected according to factors such as absorption rate and relative balance of each individual nutrient. In certain circumstances, herbal supplements may also be prescribed to help stimulate digestive juices, liver function or to reduce candida overgrowth.