Wholistic Nutrition Course
 

Yay or Nay?

Easy 1 year lead up to EMT and a spacer time to prep.

Starts Jan.

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Go for it.

Only if you go against everything you learn in there.

Hit me up when EMT class starts and I'll get you all set with tips and tricks.

Holistic nutrition (insofar as the claims made about it) is a crock. As such, I find it only justified that you take it for easy college credit, as that is all it is worth.

To use? No.
To abuse? Maybe.
To gain credit for and then disregard? Positively.

Understood, seems like the consensus here is that as a course it's basically worthless education.

A holistic diet is not necessarily an unhealthy diet, but the claim behind anything holistic (that eating certain foods drastically reduces the chances of getting this or that disease, or even that eating certain foods cures different diseases) is usually far far overstated.

Basically, most doctors would agree that eating tomatoes for their lycopene has some minor benefit towards not contracting this or that cancer. A holistic doctor on the other hand would make the outrageous claim that lycopene reduces the chance of getting this or that cancer by 50%, and some of the worse offenders would tell you it cures cancer.

Holistic medicine is even more of a quack science (and quite dangerous, since it doesn't work and people may fore go actual treatments which do work in an effort to cure their breast cancer with ground up bark). At least with holistic nutrition you'd probably be eating fairly healthy. It's not going to make you live to be 150 but there probably isn't any harm to it (not sure, though).