What is a Nutritional Consulting Practitioner?
Registered Nutritional Consulting Practitioners (RNCP) are professionals trained in holistic nutrition and complementary therapies. RNCP's can educate you about the benefits of a sound nutritional program and healthy lifestyle to encourage your body to achieve optimum health and energy.
Because every person is biochemically unique a RNCP assesses individual nutritional imbalances and weaknesses to enhance your immune system and recommend specific diets and nutritional support to help you build and maintain well-being.
RNCP's can help you make the best possible food choices. It is important to eat a variety of foods to ensure all essential nutrients are included in the diet. An RNCP will introduce new dietary habits, incorporating the latest nutritional breakthroughs. However, it may be difficult to achieve optimal health through food alone. In such cases, RNCP's are trained to design personalized dietary supplement programs.
Are you overwhelmed by all the holistic nutrition-related information in the public forum? RNCP's can help you navigate confidently through this maze, designing an individualized program respecting your unique biochemistry and enhancing your well-being. In the past, it was the custom to follow the Canada Food Guide in order to achieve dietary wellness. However, we now are aware that it does not meet the nutritional requirements for superior health. It does not meet even basic requirements for everyone, as we are all different, and our dietary needs vary greatly.
For example, until food sensitivities are corrected, some people must avoid certain foods, such as most breads and pasta if gluten intolerant, and dairy if lactose or casein intolerant. For others, it may be necessary to eat alkaline foods while detoxifying; therefore, the suggested two or three servings of meat per day in the Canada Food Guide would be inappropriate for a time.
Environmental pollution, metal toxicity, micro-organism imbalances, and allergies, are among the other factors that RNCP's consider in constructing a personalized nutritional program.
RNCP's are certified by the International Organization of Nutritional Consultants. IONC is a voluntary, non-profit, incorporated organization. It was founded in 1983 to create public awareness about holistic nutritional consulting and to regulate the standards of education for holistic nutritional consultants. Qualifications for those who apply for professional membership as RNCP's are independently assessed.
Professional members of IONC are those who have met its strict educational and ethical standards. They are granted exclusive use of the title, "Registered Nutritional Consulting Practitioner" (RNCP).