Registered Nutritional Consulting Practitioners (RNCP)
Registered Nutritional Consulting Practitioners (RNCP) are professionals trained in holistic nutrition and
complementary therapies. RNCPs can educate you about the benefits of a sound nutritional program and
healthy lifestyle to encourage your body to achieve optimum health and energy. RNCPs follow a code of
ethics.
RNCPs can assess individual nutritional imbalances and weaknesses to enhance your immune system and
recommend specific diets and nutritional support to help you build and maintain well-being.
RNCPs can help you make the best possible food choices. It is important to eat a variety of foods to
ensure all essential nutrients are included in the diet. An RNCP will introduce new dietary habits,
incorporating the latest nutritional breakthroughs. However, it may be difficult to achieve optimal health
through food alone. In such cases, RNCPs are trained to design personalized dietary supplement
programs.
RNCPs can help you navigate confidently through this maze, designing an individualized program
respecting your unique biochemistry and enhancing your well-being. In the past, it was the custom to
follow the Canada Food Guide in order to achieve dietary wellness. However, we now are aware that it
does not meet the nutritional requirements for superior health. It does not meet even basic requirements
for everyone, as we are all different, and our dietary needs vary greatly.
Registered Orthomolecular Health Practitioner™ (ROHP)
Registered Orthomolecular Health Practitioner™ (ROHP) is the designation given by IONC to a qualified
healthcare professional that specializes in maintaining or restoring biochemistry and physiology in the
body for optimum health and well-being. Orthomolecular Health practitioners assess the unique dietary
and nutritional requirements of an individual and utilize a full spectrum of customized naturotherapies
including: diet and nutritional supplements, detoxification, and drainage. Only practitioners who meet
IONC standards may refer to themselves as a Registered Orthomolecular Health Practitioner (ROHP).
Definition of "Orthomolecular"
The term "Orthomolecular" literally means 'correct molecules,' with the molecules being vitamins,
minerals, amino acids, enzymes, and essential fatty acids that are essential for proper functioning of the
body.
Orthomolecular therapy is health preservation and disease prevention with supplementation (sometimes in
high doses) of substances normally present in the body.
What you can gain from visiting a RNCP/ROHP
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Help with the prevention and management of disease
Ability to slow and reverse the biological processes of aging at the cellular level.
Guidance in learning how to make quality, life altering changes in their lives in the most
simplistic and step-wise approach
Assistance with understanding the use and abuse of food supplements
Finally making sense out of conflicting theories of nutrition
Understanding the consequences of specific food choices
Learn how to make choices more appropriate to your needs
Learn how to balance the nutritional needs of your own body
Personalized plans which considers various factors including:
o metal toxicity, micro-organism imbalances, and allergies
Specific Areas to Seek Advice
 Seasonal Allergies
 Chronic Fatigue
 Arthritis
 Cancer
 Degenerative Diseases
 Crohn’s Disease
 Adrenal Fatigue
 Colitis
 Celiac Disease
 Candida (yeast), parasites
 Depression
 Pregnancy & Post Partum Nutrition
 Diabetes
 Infertility
 Heart Disease
 Digestive concerns
 Lactose Intolerance
 Hernia
 Obesity, Sustainable weight loss
 Weight normalization
 Eczema, acne, psoriasis
 Sports Nutrition
 Elevated Cholesterol
 General Health Optimization (infant, child, adult, senior)
About the IONC
RNCPs and ROHPs are certified by the International Organization of Nutritional Consultants
(IONC). The IONC is a voluntary, non-profit, incorporated organization. It was founded in 1983 to create
public awareness about holistic nutritional consulting and to regulate the standards of education for
holistic nutritional consultants.
Professional members of IONC are those who have met its strict educational and ethical standards.
By law, anyone may call themselves a nutritional counsellor, but only those who have thoroughly studied
nutrition and have met the requirements of IONC are granted the RNCP or ROHP designation. Many
extended health care plans are now covering RNCP service fees for IONC members.
Educational Requirements from IONC approved School
 Anatomy & physiology
 Chemistry
 Allergies
 Biochemistry
 Biology
 Fundamentals of nutrition
 Preventative nutrition
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Environmental pollution
Nutritional pathology
Comparative diets
Digestion and elimination
Nutritional Symptomatology
Psycho-nutrition
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Clinical Nutrition &Research
 Jurisprudence
applications
Life cycle including geriatrics, paediatrics, clinical nutrition, and sports nutrition
Deanne Dietz, RNCP/ROHP, CNP, B.Ed is a Registered Nutritional Consulting Practitioner with Naturopathic
Perspectives. RNCPs are professionals trained in holistic nutrition and complementary therapies. RNCPs
can educate and guide you about the benefits of a sound nutritional program and healthy lifestyle to
encourage “your” body to achieve optimum health and energy. RNCPs are trained to design
personalized dietary supplement programs respecting your unique biochemistry and enhancing your
well- being. In the past, it was the custom to follow the Canada Food Guide in order to achieve dietary
wellness. However, we now are aware that it does not meet the nutritional requirements for superior
health. It does not meet even basic requirements for everyone, as we are all different, and our dietary
needs vary greatly.
Holistic nutrition does not treat symptoms, but seeks to find out what is UNDERLYING those symptoms.
Focus is then given to on bringing the body back into the balance so that it can effectively heal itself.
Come learn more about Deanne’s credentials and how she can help you reach your own nutritional and
health goals. Deanne will look into your health history and design a program tailored to your individuals
needs with a step-wise fashion for implementing life changes.
Deanne’s goal is to provide a realistic and simplistic approach to nutrition and fitness because everyone
deserves to be fit and healthy.
Holistic Nutrition
Seeing a nutritional consultant can be a wise choice for just about anyone, however, it may be especially
beneficial during special times of life such as during pregnancy, while practising competitive sports, or
when preparing for surgery or while struggling with an illness or condition.
Nutritional Consultants can identify nutritional causes of disease and correct the imbalance since poor
nutrition can be the root cause of a wide range of health disorders.
What is a Holistic Nutritionist (CNP)
 Professionals trained in nutrition and complementary therapies and Certified by the Nutritional
Practitioners Organization of Canada
 Focus on educating individuals and groups about the benefits of a sound nutritional support to
help their clients build and maintain well being
 Help others make the best possible food choices as it is important to eat a variety of foods to
ensure all essential nutrients
 Introduce new dietary habits, incorporating the latest nutritional breakthroughs
 CNPs/ RNPs can design personalized dietary supplement programs as it may be difficult to
achieve optimal health through food alone
 Do not follow Canada food guide as it does not meet even basic health requirements for
everyone, as we are all different and our dietary needs vary greatly
 Assist with the focus of avoiding certain foods and working to reintroduce sensitive foods:
o Gluten-intolerant
o Dairy and lactose – intolerant
o Eat alkaline foods while detoxifying
Employment Opportunities
 Working in conjunction with a chiropractor, naturopath, health facilities
 Working in alternative clinics
 Working in Private practices in homes or offices
 Running a health food store with an office for nutritional counselling
 Offering seminars to businesses on nutrition and on relieving stress in the workplace
 Operating fitness/wellness centres
 Teaching holistic education in schools, colleges or universities