Graduate Spotlight
Kim Dalzell, Ph.D. in Holistic Nutrition
From an early age, Kim Dalzell realized and revered the power of God’s Garden of Eden. Blessed with good health and a natural sense of the importance of balance, she has long been on a quest to educate others about the power of nutrition and strives daily to help people “get it.”
Embarking on traditional studies in nutrition, Kim navigated through what she considered all the right career moves. After becoming a registered dietitian, she secured employment as a weight loss dietitian, certified nutrition support dietitian and patient services director for a number of medical centers. Then, her career took an unexpected turn.
After moving to Illinois, she discovered oncology nutrition by “luck of the draw” and over the past eight years has worked to motivate and educate thousands of cancer patients through her unique style of teaching—combining conventional scientific findings with time-proven alternative nutritional therapies in a practical way that supports patients during and after cancer treatment. Kim currently serves as Director of Holistic Nutrition Services with Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA), a network of national cancer healthcare facilities that offers traditional and natural cancer treatments.
Regaining physical strength and emotional confidence in their body’s ability to heal, many of Kim’s patients have become energized and empowered to hope for a healthier future. “They’re always so amazed with their recovery,” she smiles. “And I’m always thrilled, but never amazed. I know it’s in our nature to heal, we just have to make the best choices and we have to believe.”
Along this highly rewarding career path, Kim decided that pursuing education in holistic nutrition would provide her with the tools necessary to help her oncology patients overcome their compromised health. She chose doctoral studies at Clayton College of Natural Health because “Working with cancer patients requires me to constantly think outside the box. Traditional oncology often values conformity over innovation and diversity,” she says. “And as long as there is division, patient care will suffer. It is my job as a health care professional to help build a bridge.”
“Practitioners who are purely allopathic may put their cancer patients at a disadvantage, since ‘good medicine’ requires exploring all avenues for healing. Through CTCA’s whole person treatment approach, cancer patients are encouraged to make informed decisions about medical and nutritional treatment options. Feeling in charge, especially of something as basic as one’s food choices, can be a cancer patient’s first step toward bolstering immunity and rallying their human spirit.”
These days, Kim is extending her innovative nutritional approaches outside of the cancer field and into the area of prevention. The author of award-winning Challenge Cancer and Win! has recently launched her second book, a consumer nutrition guide called Give It To Me Straight! Its more diverse subject matter includes hands-on nutritional Q & A advice for many chronic conditions—from diabetes to arthritis, digestive ailments, osteoporosis, weight-loss and, of course, cancer prevention and treatment.
Kim is also an international nutrition consultant for a Toyko-based corporation, working to help develop the first community nutrition resource center in Japan.
Kim’s approach to health, regardless of how far reaching, begins at home. Along with her husband Mark, she is raising two healthy children who know how read food labels and who state their health goals as “to eat healthy and to be healthy for life.” Not bad advice, whether you are seven years old or 70!
For more information: www.challengecancer.com and www.cancercenter.com
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