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Nutritional Therapy (or Nutritional Counselling) is a holistic discipline focusing on nutrition as the key to good health. It focuses on eating or eliminating particular foods, vitamins, and nutrients for therapeutic benefit. A food counselor's goal is to support you in lifestyle changes, a nutritional counselor will assess and recommend according to an individuals personal needs. Through the use of several diagnostics they will determine various nutrient supplementation to aid in digestion, assimilation and metabolism; other herbal therapies and exercise programs to help you restore and attain optimum body functioning and performance. Although food has always played an important role in different medical traditions, modern nutrition is based on early 1900's research that discovered dietary essentials (vitamins) beyond carbohydrates, protein, fat, and minerals.
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