Some Useful Facts About Integrative Nutritionist

By Debra Robinson


A nutritionist is a person who has studied about diet and gives people advice on how they should feed in order to stay healthy. Nutritionists have a deep understanding of the metabolism that occurs in the human body after food consumption. Food is a basic need, which no one can afford to live without. Therefore, an integrative nutritionist plays a major role in society. As a career, the job market has plenty of opportunities.

Nutritionists are aware of the type of food that every individual requires depending on the type of occupation that one is in. In general, outdoor workers have a high demand of energy as compared to those that work in door especially in offices. Therefore, their diet should consist mainly of carbohydrate. Food related disorders are common to people who are reluctant to involve a nutritionist in their life.

The nutritionist offers advice to their patients on the diet to take. They also handle issues dealing with body weight and identification of proper eating habits for patients. The eating habits are determined by factors such as age, gender and the health status of an individual. They also make follow up on their patients and generate plans to enable them achieve their nutritional goals so as to live good and healthy lives.

Nutritionists must be treated like other types of physicians such as gynaecologists and dentists. This means that a person must visit them regularly just like they do with other physicians. Strict adherence to the feeding guideline provided by a nutritionist is very important. This is because it can save one from untimely death since some feeding habits are outright wrong if not unhealthy. Not to mention that a person can be bed ridden forever as a result of poor diets. Heath issues like obesity makes the body prone to certain diseases such as stroke.

This career is very broad and can be subdivided into minor subfields. A sports nutritionist is a good example. These type of nutritionists specialize in sports and ensure that the sportsmen and women do not make a blunder in their diet that would result to bad performance. Poor performance often ruins careers in sports. These professionals for instance caution athletes about the effects of taking too much alcohol and poor feeding habits.

These professionals create awareness in the community on the importance of healthy eating and the effects of having bad eating habits. They inform people on issues such as overfeeding and starving when a person is on treatment and their effects on the body. Psychologists may also work alongside nutritionists in cases where someone is overfeeding because they are stressed up.

Nutritionists study different groups of people in society and after careful analysis, they set a preferable diet for the group. For instance, nutritionists can decide to concentrate on nursing mothers and come up with a suitable diet for them. They put in consideration factors like the age of the mother, type of birth (natural or operation), weather, and health status of the mother.

As a nutritionist, one is expected to have a good understanding of all eating disorders and their prevention. This creates a good basis when dealing with a patient as some diseases have similar features and may lead to wrong diagnosis. It is recommended to consult a nutritionist before changing diet.




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