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Registered Nutritional Consulting Practitioner (RNCP)
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Holistic Nutritionist - Registered Nutritional Consulting Practitioner (RNCP)
Holistic Nutritionists and Natural Nutritionists have a long history.
Our nutritional guidance services as a Registered Nutritional Consulting Practitioner (RNCP) focus on developing good eating habits that underpin healing, good health and long term wellness.
Holistic Nutritionists and Natural Nutritionists In History
The first recorded nutritional experiment is found in the Bible's Book of Daniel. Danifoel and his friends were captured by the king of Babylon during an invasion of Israel. Selected as court servants, they were to share in the king's fine foods and wine.
But they objected, preferring vegetables and water.
The king's chief steward reluctantly agreed to a trial.
Daniel and his friends received their diet for 10 days and were then compared to the king’s men. Appearing healthier, they were allowed to continue with their diet!
More History on Nutrition
- c. 475 BC: Anaxagoras states that food is absorbed by the human body and therefore contained "homeomerics" (generative components), thereby deducing the existence of nutrients.
- c. 400 BC: Hippocrates says, "Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food."
- 1500s: Scientist and artist Leonardo da Vinci compared metabolism to a burning candle.
- 1747: Dr. James Lind, a physician in the British navy, performed the first scientific nutrition experiment (thanks to a Dutch tip), discovering that lime juice saved sailors who had been at sea for years from scurvy, a deadly and painful bleeding disorder. The discovery was ignored for forty years, after which British sailors became known as "limeys." The essential vitamin C within lime juice would not be identified by scientists until the 1930s.
- 1770: Antoine Lavoisier, the "Father of Nutrition and Chemistry" discovered the details of metabolism, demonstrating that the oxidation of food is the source of body heat.
Poor Nutrition Leads To Symptoms of Illness And Health Problems
Poor health can be caused by an imbalance of nutrients, either an excess or deficiency, which, in turn, affects bodily functions cumulatively.
Moreover, because most nutrients are involved in cell-to-cell signaling (e.g. as building blocks or as part of a hormone or signaling cascades), deficiency or excess of various nutrients affects hormonal function indirectly.
Thus, because they largely regulate the expression of genes, hormones represent a link between nutrition and how our genes are expressed, i.e. our phenotype.
The strength and nature of this link are continually under investigation, but recent observations have demonstrated a pivotal role for nutrition in hormonal activity and function and therefore in health.
Nutritionally Dense Foods Are Essential
So food is an essential part of every living organisms survival and people are becoming particularly sensitive to the metabolic and physiological responses of the body to diet or more plainly, the impacts of food on their health and well-being.
At its most fundamental level, good nutrition is a vital and necessary component to achieve and maintain good health.
- Nutrition has become a technology and Nutritionists have a healthy regard for food and its life-sustaining properties. They are primarily concerned with the prevention and treatment of illnesses through proper dietary care.
- Nutritionists evaluate the diet and lifestyle of clients suffering from medical disorders and suggest ways of fighting various health problems by modifying the patient’s intake of certain food items.
- The older you get, the more you begin to understand the importance of balance in your life, and your food is no exception.
- Hypertension, diabetes, and obesity are just some of the common health problems that nutritionists work to alleviate.
Consult With A Registered Nutritional Consulting Practitioner (RNCP)
Diane McLaren is a Holistic Health Practitioner and a Registered Nutritional Consulting Practitioner (registered holistic nutritionist, RNCP) specialized in the use of diet, natural nutrition and nutritional food supplementation as an integral part of achieving an optimum level of health and wellness for her clients and customers.
Ask how a registered nutritionist and holistic nutritional consulting practitioner serving the Mississauga / Toronto GTA can make a difference in your health and wellness.
Call Diane at 905-271-11800
