Holistic
nutritional counseling is the practice of guiding individuals to regain
wellbeing through adjustments to both nutritional practices and the many
other health-related facets of life.
These facets might include physical biochemistry as effected by
food intake as well as the individual's emotional, psychological,
intellectual, spiritual, relational or exercise life, to name a few.
To accomplish this rebalancing, comprehensive data is collected from sources such as blood, hair, a detailed
health history, detailed eating habits, and much more.
This data is then interpreted in light of an individual’s whole
life experience.
Contact
Sherry directly at 888-830-4004 or at Sherry@SherryDell.com
to find out if her services and your needs are a good match. There is no
charge for this initial discussion.
This
type of nutritional counseling differs from traditional dietician
(sometimes also called nutritionists) guidelines in several ways.
First, the holistic nutritional counseling paradigm is inclusive of the individual’s many facets of life
experience, beyond the limits of symptomatology.
This is in contrast to dieticians who are trained to follow the traditional, medical
model for health care. In
this sense, their paradigm is deconstructive, or focused on the separate
symptoms and diagnoses identified by their physician colleagues.
Second,
holistic nutritionists practice nutritional recommendations based
on the concepts of biochemical individuality espoused by nobel laureate
Roger Williams (Williams 1956). These
concepts include the idea that each individual will have unique and
varying nutritional needs for specific nutrients based on life
circumstances, stress, age, genetics, diet, and much more.
Dieticians practice nutritional recommendations based on the recommended
daily allowances (RDA) established by the United States government.
These guidelines are intended to meet the needs of populations at
large, not the needs of individuals.
Third,
holistic nutritionists generally practice their nutritional
recommendations based on the belief that due to the combination of a
degradation in American farming practices (see Bernard Jensen and Mark
Anderson’s book, Empty Harvest)
(Jensen, Anderson 1990) and the intensely varying biochemical
individuality within and among individuals, it is a rare person indeed
who is able to achieve wellbeing without nutritional supplementation at
least on an occasional basis. Dieticians tend to practice nutritional recommendations based on the
belief that food alone is adequate to achieve wellbeing.
In other words, they are not commonly known to recommend any food
supplementation such as vitamins, herbs, etc.
In
general, holistic nutritional counseling
uses nutrition and other natural
approaches to wellness to balance the mind, body, and spirit
connection. It is based on the belief that in balance lies overall
wellbeing. And in wellbeing, aging is an opportunity to grow
wiser, to have more fun, to fulfill your destiny. When you know harmony and balance, age is reflection of the number of years
you've lived, not the number of aches and pains you feel each morning.
Sherry's
recipe for holistic nutritional counseling includes the main
ingredients of the analysis of individual biochemistry and her use
of medical intuition, as well as the very important spice of deep
empathy garnered through years of her own health trials.
Sherry has the gift of being able to see her clients' natural state of
wellbeing, even when it isn't currently present. This makes it
possible for her to work with the sickest among us all the while knowing
they, too, are enjoying the body's unceasing efforts for
wellbeing.
