What Is Nutrition Counseling?
Nutrition counseling is a vital part of preventive medicine, as well as the treatment of many health conditions and illnesses. Personalized nutrition counseling on behavioral and lifestyle changes will have a positive impact on a person’s overall health, body weight, blood pressure, blood glucose, heart health, and kidney health. It helps to maximize quality of life.
Nutrition Counseling Includes:
Medical Nutrition Therapy
Medical Nutrition Therapy is a therapeutic approach to the treatment of an illness or injury using a customized diet and action plan created and monitored by a registered dietitian. It can enhance a person’s overall health and reduce the risk of developing complications in pre-existing conditions, while decreasing or eliminating the need for prescription drugs.
Bariatric Nutrition
Weight reduction surgery helps to achieve medically significant weight loss. For millions of people, it is a life-saving procedure, though the benefits are not guaranteed. In order to be successful, patients must make major nutritional and lifestyle changes after surgery. Nutritional counseling can assist with those changes and is an important aspect of recovery after weight loss surgery.
Sports Nutrition
Sports nutrition is all about optimizing what an athlete eats and drinks to get the most from exercise. Adequate nutrition promotes peak athletic performance. All athletes have special nutrition needs and must balance exercise routines and/or competition schedules with work, classes, social events, meal times and family responsibilities.
Eating Disorder
Insecure teens or young women are not the only ones affected by eating disorders. They creep up upon every age, race, gender and socioeconomic status and have dangerous health effects.