Holistic nutrition analyzes a person's physical, emotional and spiritual health and offers the patient a roadmap to recovery based on sound nutritional principles.
Practitioners of holistic nutrition consider the whole person when they prescribe natural healing protocols. Conventional western medicinal practices generally diagnose diseases based on physical symptoms displayed by patients, but alternative medicinal approaches like holistic nutrition potentially help patients to uncover non-physical causes of poor nutrition that leads to disease.
Holistic nutritionists usually recommend natural or organic foods and herbal supplements that support the body's normal detoxification functions. These protocols help the body to correct chemical and hormonal imbalances that is needed to improve overall health.
There are five main aspects of personal health: physical, emotional, social, spiritual, and intellectual. In order to be considered "well," it is imperative for none of these areas to be neglected.
~ Roger Williams University Health and Wellness Educators (HAWES)
