What is a Holistic Nutrition Consultant?

Scope of Practice of a Holistic Nutrition Consultant
Licensing and Registration

Scope of Practice of a Holistic Nutrition Consultant

Holistic nutrition consultants focus on the health and education of their clients. They do not diagnose and treat disease, nor do they prescribe meal plans for their clients. They teach their clients how to create an internal and an external environment that is conducive to good health, enabling the client to make his or her own choices. Each consultant's practice is based on a mixture of scientific theory and art, whether it is his or her own, that of a fellow practitioner, or that which they learn from a text. Holistic nutrition is not the practice of dietetics and does not take the place of advice from a registered/licensed dietician or nutritionist.

Licensing and Registration of Nutrition Consultants

Since holistic nutrition is the practice of a personal scientific theory, state licensing, especially exclusionary state licensing, of all individuals in the field of nutrition is not an attempt to protect the public. State medical laws are already in place to protect the public from unlicensed individuals diagnosing and treating people. This current type of dietician/nutritionist licensing does little or nothing to protect the public and there is no documented abuse of the unlicensed practice of nutrition. Rather, it actually seeks to do is create a monopoly.

State licensing is generally sought, not to protect the public as one may think, but as an anti-competitive barrier to protect members of one licensed group from competing with similiar types of practitioners. Traditional healthcare monopolies limit consu mer access to non-allopathic health information, true natural health modalities, and raise the price of healthcare in general. A deregulated healthcare marketplace, on the other hand, increases competition among healthcare practitioners and modalities. Only then will practitioner compete o n results-driven care; only then will consumers purchase care based on effectiveness and price.

| Licensing is Bad Medicine | History |
| Naturopathy v. Naturopathic Medicine | Traditional Naturopathy |
| Position Papers: Naturopathy |