AND (Dietitians) Monopoly

AND (Dietitians) Monopoly View your state’s licensing status Monopoly Over Nutritional Therapy Overview ANH-USA advocates for access and choice—to ensure consumers have unencumbered access to health care treatments and ensure practitioners have the autonomy to practice in a manner that is truly in the best interest of his/her patient. Unfortunately, legislation has been passed in […]

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ADA Monopolization of Nutritional Licensing

ADA Monopolization of Nutritional Licensing Integrative Practitioners Working Toward a Level Playing Field April 27, 2010 In some of these states, nutritionists can still practice but any non-ADA approved professionals are prohibited from using the words ‘nutritionist’ and ‘nutritional care’—even if the individual holds a Masters or a PhD in nutrition and is not claiming […]

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Playing Monopoly With Our Health

The American Dietetic Association (ADA) wants to create a monopoly on state nutritional licensure. This organization—which lists among its corporate sponsors soft drink giants Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, cereal manufacturers General Mills and Kellogg’s, candy maker Mars, and Unilever, the multinational corporation that owns many of the world’s consumer products brands in foods and beverages—already has a stranglehold on who can dispense nutritional counseling at the state level.

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Jonathan Lizotte

Jonathan Lizotte

Founder, Designs for Health ANH-USA, Treasurer www.designsforhealth.com Jonathan Lizotte launched his nutrition industry career in 1989 when he founded Designs for Health with his wife, Linda. With a team of nutritionists managing 22 Northeastern offices, the newly formed company focused on providing nutrition counseling services for the treatment of a variety of health conditions. The […]

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