INTEGRATING NUTRITION INTO PRACTICE
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INTEGRATING
NUTRITION INTO PRACTICE
NUTRITION INTO PRACTICE
Description
Integrative medicine is a whole systems approach to wellness that embodies all
healing modalities and emphasizes natural and traditional approaches and favors
noninvasive low-risk interventions. The movement of integrative medicine dates
back several decades to a more evolutionary process whose growth was organic
and a number of pioneers who collectively increased public awareness and ultimately popularity. Due to consumer demand of integrative medicine, congressional legislation established the Office of Alternative Medicine in October 1991 and
appropriated $2M for its inception under the auspices of the National Institutes of
Health (NIH).* The goal was to fund research studies to confirm the validity of
integrative medicine healing modalities. Despite economic fluxes, there has been
a steady growth in funding for this office whose name was changed in 2000 as the
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), which
was refined as the federal government’s lead agency for scientific research on
the diverse medical and health-care systems, practices, and products that are not
generally considered part of conventional medicine. Ultimately, the goal of the 65
FTE-staffed agency is to advance the science and practice of complementary and
alternative medicine and promote evidence-based personalized strategies while
enabling practitioner’s data to incorporate evidence-based strategies to promote
wellness and health care.† NCCAM and philanthropic funding of research encouraged research and rapid growth of integrative medicine with ample evidence supporting its benefits. In 1994, Dr. Andrew Weil, philanthropists, and colleagues
formed the nation’s first university-based training program in integrative medicine at the University of Arizona. In 2001, a conversation began the formation of
The Bravewell Collaborative, a community of philanthropists that are devoted to
the growth of integrative medicine and partnered with leading academic physicians to transform health care into a more humanistic integrative model.‡ The
Bravewell Collaborative then brought together over 50 major academic centers
in the United States to form the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for
Integrative Medicine. In 2014, The American Board of Integrative Medicine came
together under the American Board of Physician Specialties to provide the public
a means to recognize physicians who are qualified in the practice of integrative
medicine.
healing modalities and emphasizes natural and traditional approaches and favors
noninvasive low-risk interventions. The movement of integrative medicine dates
back several decades to a more evolutionary process whose growth was organic
and a number of pioneers who collectively increased public awareness and ultimately popularity. Due to consumer demand of integrative medicine, congressional legislation established the Office of Alternative Medicine in October 1991 and
appropriated $2M for its inception under the auspices of the National Institutes of
Health (NIH).* The goal was to fund research studies to confirm the validity of
integrative medicine healing modalities. Despite economic fluxes, there has been
a steady growth in funding for this office whose name was changed in 2000 as the
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), which
was refined as the federal government’s lead agency for scientific research on
the diverse medical and health-care systems, practices, and products that are not
generally considered part of conventional medicine. Ultimately, the goal of the 65
FTE-staffed agency is to advance the science and practice of complementary and
alternative medicine and promote evidence-based personalized strategies while
enabling practitioner’s data to incorporate evidence-based strategies to promote
wellness and health care.† NCCAM and philanthropic funding of research encouraged research and rapid growth of integrative medicine with ample evidence supporting its benefits. In 1994, Dr. Andrew Weil, philanthropists, and colleagues
formed the nation’s first university-based training program in integrative medicine at the University of Arizona. In 2001, a conversation began the formation of
The Bravewell Collaborative, a community of philanthropists that are devoted to
the growth of integrative medicine and partnered with leading academic physicians to transform health care into a more humanistic integrative model.‡ The
Bravewell Collaborative then brought together over 50 major academic centers
in the United States to form the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for
Integrative Medicine. In 2014, The American Board of Integrative Medicine came
together under the American Board of Physician Specialties to provide the public
a means to recognize physicians who are qualified in the practice of integrative
medicine.