What is a Nutrition Coach?

What is a nutrition coach

Is this the right future career for you? What is a Nutrition Coach? A Nutrition Coach guides in healthy eating for specific health areas. They also create recipes and meal plans.

There are so many different ways that you can work as a Nutrition Coach.

You could;

  • work with clients on a one-to-one basis
  • coach through group programs either online or face to face
  • give cooking demonstrations
  • be a nutrition writer for magazines, and health companies or write a book!
  • blog about healthy eating and nutrition
  • work with employee wellness
  • work with hospitality within corporates.

The list really is endless. You just need to be creative. Many ask, what is a Nutrition Coach? At Sano, our Nutrition Coaches bring back the joy of eating to others, helping them have the freedom to eat food they love whilst staying healthy. There are an infinite number of ways to achieve this and our coaches all develop their unique businesses that play to their strengths and fulfil their own passions.

So what is a Nutrition Coach?

It is essential to understand this to avoid confusion between the roles and qualifications of a Nutrition Coach, Nutritionist and Nutritional Therapist.

Nutritionists and Nutritional Therapists are professionals that have studied nutrition in detail for three years. They can see patients in a clinical setting. What we mean by that is that when they see their patients on a one-to-one basis, they are assessing their symptoms. They are looking at the whole person and they’re trying to get to the root cause of the symptoms so that they can then use nutrition to help those people.

A Nutrition Coach would never look at symptoms. Nutrition Coaches will be giving guidance in the areas that they’ve been asked to guide in, or they might be giving a presentation or a cooking demonstration on how you could eat to support cardiovascular health for instance. However, they are never looking at a person’s symptoms.

As a Nutrition Coach in the UK, you can work on a one-to-one basis but your client would have come to you and asked for nutritional support eg nutritional support for bone health, cardiovascular health, weight loss, energy, mental health, etc. You’re not actually giving a consultation where you are looking at and assessing symptoms. You could have also had a client referred to you by a GP or by a Nutritionist who needs some help for that person to have meal plans and recipes prepared as well as general healthy eating guidance.

Different rules do apply in different countries worldwide, for example in the USA it depends on what state you live in and your other qualifications as to what nutrition guidance you are able to give. For guidance about working with nutrition in other countries please contact us.

We are in the midst of a health crisis and now more than ever, we all need to work together. We need Nutrition Coaches. We need to be working together with the medical profession and with GPs in particular. We need to be working with Nutritionists and Nutritional Therapists for the best outcomes. A career as a Nutrition Coach can be so varied. It can be what you want it to be, what you make it. The important thing is obviously to have sound training and a qualification behind you. 

Our Nutrition Coach course trains you in nutritional science, how to set up a business, how to coach and also includes cookery and cookery skills.

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