ABOUT ME
KARMENSITA B. MASKAREL Born in Novi Sad, Serbia, Yugoslavia 1977 - Medical doctor, Medical school, University of Novi Sad 1979 - 1989- Assistant Professor, Department of Pathophysiology, Medical school, University of Novi Sad 1986 - Residency in Pathophysiology and Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Principal Provincial Hospital in Novi Sad 1988 - Macrobiotic seminar, Zagreb, Croatia, Yugoslavia 1990 -1994 - Postdoc fellow, Department for Neurodegenerative diseases, University of Toronto, Canada 1992 - Diploma in Acupuncture and Moxibustion, the Hong Kong Institute for Acupuncture & GiGong, Toronto, Canada 1997 - Doctor of Chiropractic, Parker Chiropractic College in Dallas, TX 2014 - Certified Holistic Nutritionist, Alive Academy of Natural Health, Canada Present activities: Holistic nutritional consultant Writer and educator Hobbies: Art - 2003 - present - Member of the art group https://rezzonanceartgroup.com/ Music Languages: English, Serbian |
My Stand on Nutrition
Importance of nutrition lies upon a fact that it creates our inner environment, our biochemistry, which can go in either, but opposite direction: toward health or sickness depending on a sort and quality of what we consume. Many factors influence our state of health. Our genetic make-up, what we eat and drink every day, our environment, the way we perceive the objective surroundings with events and people we interact with. Some of them we can change with quite amount of effort and difficulty, some we cannot change at all. However, the choice of food, the way we consume it, indeed, depends for the most part on us. We can be in charge of our food and with the growing research based evidence how nutrition affects our health, this issue become even more important. Replacing bad nutritional habits with good ones leads to improvement in our biochemical milieu and in this way we are on a good path to achieve and enjoy optimal health. Why I named the title: Nutrition-personalized? The title is self-explanatory. The emphasis of my nutritional approach is on a person. I believe that every person is unique as are their fingerprints, earlobes, irises including biochemical patterns. All these factors in combination with genetics result in an unique individual. Although there is a general rule what healthy food comprises, addressing individual nutritional requirements goes beyond this. If someone gets stomach aches or intestinal cramps after eating garlic, can we call this healthy food for that person? Of course not! Orange is rich in vitamin C and antioxidants. Seems the perfect food. However it is a "bad" food for those who cannot tolerate citric fruits or sugary content in oranges. Experience shows that there is no food even if belongs to so called "healthy foods" that cannot act as a offending food for a particular person under certain circumstances. That is why nutrition should be tailored individually. |