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Online Nutrition Advice

by ruth on August 27th, 2007

I am fascinated by functional foods, more popularly known as “superfoods”, and their ability to help the body fight diseases. Having been a scientist in my past life (haha!), I am amazed at the number of scientific studies that show how certain foods are not merely for satisfying hunger, but also as tools to a healthy lifestyle. But I’m no nutritionist. I’m not a dietician. Therefore, when it comes to specific diet/nutrition advice, I’m of no use.

A reader of this blog pointed out the Bitwine’s Nutrition Advisors’ Network, which features licensed dieticians available 24/7 to provide professional consultation for a fee. Each advisor has an indicated cost-per-minute consultation fee, which can be from 50 cents to about 2 bucks, although I’ve seen a handful offering their services fore free.

I’m not sure what and where the hooks are, and to be honest I’m pretty skeptical about any sort of online medical consultation. But if you have an urgent question or problem that can’t wait til your next trip to a real flesh-and-blood nutritionist/dietician (or perhaps for some reason, do not want to visit a real flesh-and-blood nutritionist/dietician), then you might want to give this a try. I can imagine that the first challenge is to find one from the hundreds of nutritionists listed there that’ll suit you.

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