The Institute for Functional Medicine
Jeffrey Bland, PhD, and Susan Bland founded the Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM) in 1992. IFM is a nonprofit educational organization that provides continuing medical education for health care providers. The Institute for Functional Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education and achieved its accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education on September 12, 2006 and was awarded the status of Accreditation with Commendation for six years as a provider of continuing medical education for physicians.Criticism
In 1991, the FTC charged that two corporations led by Jeffrey Bland, HealthComm and Nu-Day Enterprises, had falsely claimed that their diet program could cause weight loss by changing consumers' metabolism and cause them to lose weight without exercising so that fat would be lost as body heat instead of being stored. In 1995, the FTC charged Bland and his companies with violating the 1991 consent order by making further unsubstantiated weight-loss claims for several products, including the UltraClear dietary program, which had been falsely claimed to reduce the incidence and severity of symptoms associated with gastrointestinal problems, inflammatory and immunologic problems, fatigue, food allergies, mercury exposure, kidney disorders, and rheumatoid arthritis. The second settlement agreement included a $45,000 civil penalty. The Institute for Functional Medicine, was created as division of HealthComm division.Adapted from the Wikipedia article Functional medicine, under the G. N. U. Free Documentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
