Brittany Eidsness (Registered Holistic Nutritionist)
My passion for holistic health and wellness took root at a young age. Throughout high school and university I created and led programs aimed at increasing physical fitness and raising health awareness in youth and their families. In 2006 I began studying nutrition at the University of British Columbia and following that, the Canadian School of Natural Nutrition (CSNN).
After completing my diploma and receiving the designation of Registered Holistic Nutritionist (RHN) from CSNN, I began consulting in nutrition. My studies in Food, Nutrition and Health at UBC complement my RHN designation, allowing me to approach health and wellness from a truly comprehensive standpoint.
I am dedicated to helping my clients achieve their individual goals. For some, this is achieving weight loss, while for others it means addressing issues related to the way nutrition impacts stress, sleep, digestion and a host of other health issues. I approach my work from a holistic point of view, meaning that I look at all the factors that either help or hinder my client’s overall health.
I am driven by my passion for nutrition and the way simple, small changes can transform people’s lives.
Among anthropologists there is a joke that aptly describes the plight of modern humans. They say that the complexity in which modern humans must operate is akin to running brand new software on 50000 year-old hardware. They mean that human beings really haven’t changed that much, genetically speaking, over the past fifty thousand years, but our environment certainly has.
This is equally true of the manner in which human beings sustain themselves through food. A Paleolithic era hunter-gatherer sitting at a modern dining room table would find very little in common with the foods he served his family on their stone slab. His foods did not have ingredient lists. They did not have food colouring or chemical additives. They were not slathered in pesticides or modified in a lab. His food was the food human beings were evolved to eat.
Somewhere along the way, we stopped eating real food. We have a hard time recognizing basic, natural, and nutritious fare, instead plucking processed, chemical- laden groceries off of store shelves and calling it dinner. But this isn’t necessarily our fault. We’re constantly barraged with marketing messages from every medium screaming about the latest “superfood,” the one that’s going to finally make us healthy and happy. No wonder we’ve lost our way.
Through my own personal experiences and education, it became clear people want to make a change in their diets and lives, but weren’t exactly sure how to do it. I realized my own journey in diet and health exploration helped me to embrace what healthy eating and living looks like, and I decided to use this information to help others in their own quest for good health and better lives. My approach to health, nutrition, and wellness is based on the point of view that human beings are like any other member of the animal kingdom. We have specific nutritional needs that can only be met by enjoying fresh, real food.