What is a Nutrition Coach?

A Nutrition Coach is a wellness authority and supportive mentor who motivates individuals to cultivate positive health choices. Nutrition Coaches educate and support clients to achieve their nutrition goals through lifestyle and behavior adjustments.

What Do Nutrition Coaches Do For Their Clients?

• Nutrition Coaches have a variety of services they provide for patients and clients of all types. A good coach will begin by teaching the basics of general nutrition, then take a specific approach to each patient based on careful analysis of that person's needs, their body type and any other information necessary to help that person reach their goals while keeping them safe and healthy. This stage of basic nutrition involves assistance with grocery shopping, meal preparation, nutritional supplements if needed and any other over-all advice.

• The next step will be guidance through the system that was started in step one, taking a detailed history of health and current nutritional intake, often times running multiple tests to allow the greatest possible amount of information about the patient or client. Once a nutritional program has been created, a coach will provide assistance with the instructions given and explanation of the benefits at each phase. These recommendations should be based on each individual person's specific biochemistry, physiology, genetics, environment and lifestyle.

• Once a patient or client has begun their designed program, coaches will assist them with their specific goals they wish to achieve. Coaches continue to assist in the ascertainment of these goals, providing both medical and moral assistance throughout the process.

As more and more awareness is given to preventative care, nutrition coaching is seen as a vital aspect of creating healthy lifestyle changes. Nutrition Coaches are becoming recognized as essential and integral parts of people's health and wellbeing. Not only is there a shift to live healthier lives, people are finding that helping others become healthier makes their lives better too.

Food Coaching

A Food Coach is a professional with in-depth knowledge of food preparation as well as nutritional knowledge. Food Coaches educate clients on how to prepare foods in ways that are best suited to their goals. Evolution offers this service to its clients as a series of health care consultations. These consultations are performed by or under the direct supervision of a qualified and licensed healthcare practitioner.