Job Posting for RHN- CSNN Graduate

Rachelle Wood, RHN and CEO of Positive Change Nutrition in Charlottetown PEI requires another RHN to work 20-35 hours per week seeing weight loss clients in the Summerside and Charlottetown office locations beginning immediately. Positive Change offers competitive wages, and with full time employment a health plans after 6 months.

Positive Change Nutrition specializes in one on one weight loss counselling. In 4 ½ years the weight loss program has helped Islanders lose almost 40 000 pounds! Rachelle has written a 52-week weight loss program including weekly themed handouts, goals, homework questions and recipes. Meal plans are customized for clients to ensure success. Preference will be given to applicants who have battled weight issues personally or professionally with counselling experience.

Ideal Applicant will:

-Be a graduate of CSNN or affiliated school

-Have a valid drivers licence with own vehicle

-Be passionate about health and weight loss

-Able to work with minimal supervision

-Be willing to re-locate to PEI

-Be computer and tech savvy

Job Description Includes:

-          One on one weight loss counselling in office and online

-          Booking clients via telephone and email

-          Light office duties, cleaning, and banking, ECT.

To find out more about Positive Change Nutrition check out www.rachellewood.ca. To apply for this position email your resume and cover letter to rachelle@rachellewood.ca. Rachelle Wood is dedicated to changing the way the world eats. Also check out her online nutrition blog at http://www.blog.rachellewood.ca

Lori Nichols Davies

 Lori Nichols Davies is a Canadian pioneer in research and education in Applied Nutrition who has been active since 1972 in the health food business. This is an expansive field today, attracting focused attention to chefs because people of all ages and lifestyles are expressing concern about making healthier food choices in restaurants.  As a new breed of chef, Lori is recognized by the Who’s Who of Canada 2009 as an outstanding entrepreneur, business woman and professional. The Canadian Naturopathic Community recognizes her as a holistic chef and friend, and the Canadian Association of Natural Nutritional Practitioners as an honorary member and ardent spokesperson.  She has a diploma from the Strathmore Institute in Toronto as a Natural Health Consultant, has studied with the International Edison Institute as a nutrition consultant, and is an active member of the International Association of Culinary Professionals. (115 schools)

Based on a lifetime of professional experience as a healing food consultant since 1972 in Toronto, Lori has attracted a group of clinical scientists and international food professionals to join her in a clearly defined goal. Using life-style kinesiology and mineral-rich foods she teaches how to build immunity one meal at a time. Her Holistic Cooking Academy of Canada is maintaining its expertise in Ottawa. She has expanded to the Greater Toronto area in 2009. It will go wherever her teaching staff wishes to take it.

Lori’s professional advisory board is dedicated to knowing everything possible about nutritional food. Using their research, she teaches others to become holistic teaching chefs and enlightened home chefs. With funds accumulating through a $40.00 annual membership fee to the Holistic Cooking Club she envisions facilities with equipment and expertise to train professional chefs as holistic chefs. She offers a 220-hour program spread out for a part time 55-week education program to enable working adults to create a new career, Certified Holistic Teaching Chefs.  An intensive 15-week program will start February 2010. Since 1998, Lori has trained over 2,000 home chefs. Her teaching staff began in 2008 in Ottawa to expand the Academy’s message at five locations.

Lori is one of Canada’s first certified ‘Touch for Health’ kinesiologists. She added holistic expertise to her curriculum by taking earlier courses in The Language of Herbs and the Essential Healing Oils. As an invited speaker at public forums, audience members feel her passion and dedication as a ‘green leader’. Chef Lori N-D is creating an important legacy: holistic teaching chefs to assist nations to greater health and deeper happiness naturally with organic foods as medicine. Come enjoy 42 culinary herbs that will help you to gently detoxify in a world of 85,000 toxic chemicals and 14,000 harmful food additives.  

Making it her responsibility to understand how nutrients factor into healthy longevity on the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels Chef Lori N-D has produced fourteen cookbooks under name The Enlightened Home Chef series. The first textbook, “Cooking with Herbs and Spices (5000 years of Wisdom Confirmed by Modern Science)” is now available at $49.95. It is a trendsetter, laying down principles by which readers will gain insights to tweak other cookbooks.

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In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government's regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment.

Janice Visinski, a Registered Holistic Nutritionist who has combined knowledge in natural skin care formulations with a doctoral level biomedical scientist, to create a skin care line based on Ayurveda – a time tested 5000 year old holistic approach to health. Ayurvedic philosophy teaches that youthful and radiant skin comes from being in a state of harmony with nature. Keeping with this philosophy, Vysada uses natural ingredients such as ayurvedic herbs, natural butters and therapeutic grade essential oils without the use of harsh chemicals and preservatives found in many cosmetics today.

A Statistics Canada report says, shift work, long hours and blue-collar jobs are all associated with higher levels of obesity than regular hours, shorter hours and white-collar jobs. More men and women who worked shifts were more obese than regularly scheduled workers. The percentage of obese workers were aged 18-64; by job type.

In 2005, 2.3 million people, or about 16% of employed Canadians aged 18 to 64 were obese -- 1,423,000 men and 918,000 women, according to Statistics Canada.

Lead author Dr. Jungwee Park said that Employers might want to make work place plans, to prevent obesity and sponsor health initiatives for weight maintenance programs, to benefit the individual workers and the Canadian economy in general.

Night work and shift work brought changes in the levels of stress hormones causing high stress levels. The stress caused by long and irregular hours may be the root of the higher obesity levels and even diabetes. Cardio vascular diseases and sleeping during daytime affect the natural rhythms of the body and body temperature. All these pointed to one fact; slowing down metabolism can make a person gain weight rapidly. With a sensible diet it's possible to reduce the effects of stress, avoid some common problems and protect your health. For most of us, stress and food go hand-in-hand. Food can give us the feelings of power, control and satisfaction that we need in stressful situations; giving your body the nutrition it needs is a positive step you can take every day toward combating stress. With the correct nutrition, you are better prepared to face the challenges of the work place.

Companies may want to provide free nutritional work shops or seminars to their workforce in order to better educate and become more knowledgeable as to what to eat during stressful work time, since our food choices directly affect our energy levels.  Also, if providing food in the work place, put healthy food choices on their menus to prevent obesity and support workers' physical, mental and emotional health. 

For info on CBC News: Shift and blue-collar workers more likely to be obese: Stats Can go to: http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/02/20/obesity-statistics.html
 

 Michelle Schoffro Cook is an award-winning author, Doctor of Natural Medicine, Doctor of Acupuncture, Certified Holistic Nutritionist, Quantum Biofeedback Therapist, Holistic Life Coach®, Energy Medicine Practitioner, Reconnective™ Healing Practitioner and Reiki Master.  She is also the Founder and Director of the Energy Effect. 

Organic Spa Magazine is a lifestyle magazine committed to the sustainable side of life – be that spa and wellness, food and fitness, or design and décor. Eco friendly lifestyle has become a key issue for all of us due to many of us becoming much more open to the bonuses of living attuned with nature rather than against it. The magazine talks about practical aspects of nurturing organic beauty; the one way to change as a green movement.  It makes the most life-affirming choices that bring pure joy and lively happiness into your lives at home, work, play and rest. That is something we can embrace in the privacy of our own homes; an alternative lifestyle option that can be just as much about personal choice (what to eat, what to wear). You will find interesting inner and outer beauty information on: Ask The Organic Beauty Expert,  Organic Spa is available to readers in both digital and print formats

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