Personal Trainers & Nutritionists: Stop Pushing Products on Your Clients

I'm a rarity as a holistic nutritionist. I don't sell any products. The key to a healthy lifestyle is to eat real food in reasonable quantities and to move your body frequently. Click on almost any Yelp page or business website for a weight-loss coach, holistic nutritionist, or health and wellness program and you'll see products like these offered for sale: • Total body cleanses • Vitamin and mineral supplements • Fat burners and appetite suppressants • Hormone pills • Herbal products • Packaged processed foods • Protein bars and shakes • Strict diet plans that eliminate entire food groups and severely restrict calories I'm sure my fellow trainers and nutritionists would say that people need a jump-start on their weight loss and that supplements are necessary because their clients just won't eat vegetables. My perspective is that all these short-cuts and quick-fixes are a waste of money and sometimes even dangerous. Sadly, in the competitive business of promoting health and wellness, it's tempting to supplement your income by convincing your weight loss clients that these products work. Anyone who has ever been on a diet wants nothing more than for the fat to fall off immediately. Therefore, overweight clients are sitting ducks when a purported expert in nutrition assures them that if they use these magic products it will hasten the weight loss. Let's use protein shakes as an example. What's Wrong with Protein Shakes? They seem innocent enough. They c...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news