Food and nutrition have been very much in the news in recent years, thanks in particular to the growing number of scientific studies published proving the link between diet and health, the anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer properties of certain foods, the growing awareness of the impact of junk food on our health and physical well-being, and the worldwide explosion in organic food, …
Food is health! Nutrition
All this is leading more and more people to ask questions, to question their diet for health and well-being reasons (reduced energy, weight gain, persistent tiredness, digestive problems, metabolic diseases, allergies and food intolerances, cancers, other pathologies) and to want to adopt good eating habits. To go further, some people even want to take preventive action by adopting a diet that is as beneficial and protective as possible for their health.
As part of this approach, you may want to consult a nutrition health professional. But which one should you consult: a dietician, nutritionist or nutritherapist?
To help you answer this question, we’re going to look at the differences between these 3 professionals and when you might want to consult one or the other.
The dietician
Dieticians are nutrition technicians with very specific, practical training. Their main task is to draw up personalised, balanced menus for their clients with a view to weight loss, or for specific dietary monitoring in the case of diet-related illnesses such as diabetes, obesity or anorexia, often on the recommendation of a doctor…
Dieticians educate and train people in balanced diets, or help them to follow a diet with a view to weight loss, for example.
Why consult a dietician?
If you’re trying to lose weight or have a diet-related illness and would like to benefit from personalised, balanced menus and dietetic monitoring.
The nutritionist
A nutritionist is generally a health professional (doctor, naturopath, osteopath, dietician) who has undergone training (of varying lengths, often around twenty hours, up to 80 hours for a DU) in nutrition. They are particularly interested in nutrition in the context of overweight problems and diet-related illnesses. The nutritionist will be able to diagnose and treat patients suffering from a pathology (overweight, obesity, diabetes, etc.) by giving them nutritional advice, and will monitor the patient’s progress through the course of their illness.
Why consult a nutritionist?
If you have a diet-related pathology, are overweight or not in good shape, and would like to be looked after by a professional who can tell you which specific foods to eat or avoid, depending on your illness or problem.
The nutritherapist
The nutritherapist (a profession which is still not very widespread) is also a health professional (doctor, pharmacist, osteopath, naturopath, dietician) who has specialised and followed an advanced training course (around 400 hours), at the cutting edge of research and specific* to Nutritherapy, given by doctors who are experts in nutrition and micro-nutrition, in order to understand how the body works in relation to the nutrients provided by food and, above all, to study the therapeutic properties of certain foods or nutrients that have been clearly highlighted by recent scientific and medical studies. This understanding encompasses all the metabolic and biochemical processes involved in the onset or presence of disease, as well as knowledge of the compounds and molecules contained in the nutrients that contribute to these processes and those that optimise them. The role of the nutritherapist is therefore to identify deficiencies and metabolic dysfunctions in order to, respectively, compensate for and repair them using food and food supplements (micro-nutrition) to achieve a state of homeostasis (return to natural balance).
Why consult a nutritherapist?
If you are looking to prevent or lose weight over the long term, or if you are suffering from any kind of pathology (nervous, endocrine, digestive, osteo-articular, hormonal, skin, etc.) and would like to receive nutritherapy advice to improve or optimise your condition through nutrition and micro-nutrition, as well as follow-up on your overall health (dietary and physical, emotional, psychological) and natural approach.
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*Example of a Nutritherapy training programme:
– Nutritherapy of inflammatory and allergic pathologies
– Psychiatric nutritherapy
– Nutritherapy for women
– Nutritherapy for children and adolescents
– Nutritherapy for the elderly and nutritherapy for degenerative diseases
– Longevity, slowing down ageing, prevention of degenerative diseases, oxidative and nitrative stress, glycation, detoxification, DNA repair
– Applied biochemistry
– Prevention studies 1: food, nutrients and health
– Prevention studies 2: food, nutrients and health
– Correction of anti-nutritional effects of drugs and therapeutic or co-therapeutic nutritional intervention studies 1
– Therapeutic or co-therapeutic nutritional intervention studies 2
– Therapeutic or co-therapeutic nutritional intervention studies 3
– Therapeutic and co-therapeutic nutritional intervention studies 4
– Therapeutic and co-therapeutic nutritional intervention studies 5
– In-depth biological analyses and other examinations useful in nutritherapy
– Clinical case studies 1
– Clinical case studies 2
– Clinical case studies 3
Source : IENPA
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