What is the difference between working with a Health Counselor versus a Dietician or Nutritionist?
Regardless of what they call themselves, any particular practitioner might have a unique approach that can not be completely categorized. However, Dietitians and Nutritionists are more likely to limit their focus to food intake as opposed to considering and helping you work on all the ways that you “feed” yourself (with relationships, work, exercise, a spiritual connection, and other lifestyle habits). My approach to health is more holistic in terms of looking at everything that impacts our ability to be well. Nutritionists and Dietitians also may recommend diet plans based on something like the FDA Food Pyramid. The Pyramid is a tool that includes some good advice, but is, in my opinion, limited to the degree to which it does not recognize that one diet does not work for everyone and that some of the foods that have been part of our traditional diet are now known to be not health-promoting for some people (i.e., conventionally-produced cow’s milk dairy products). My approach to health
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