by Nina Lane | Sep 29, 2021 | Wellness
Health and ‘wellness’ can seem elusive, but the good news is you can use healthy habits can take your health to the next level. Media messages keep promoting the next ‘magic pill’, program or fad that supposedly will transform your health. Instead these quick fixes often leave us frustrated and with an empty wallet while finding our selves stuck, repeating old unhealthy habits. However, while bad habits have long-term consequences and can lead to disease, developing healthy habits can have long-term benefits such as improving our health and wellness so we can live better.
What you do daily matters
There are many reasons for wanting better health. Maybe your reason is fatigue, extra weight or a scary health scare. The leading causes of death worldwide are linked with the way a person or a group of people lives (1). Common lifestyle diseases are cardiovascular diseases such as atherosclerosis, hypertension and strokes as well as diabetes, obesity and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (linked with smoking). However, you can prevent many of these lifestyle disease and improve your health by addressing their root cause…your habits (2). Too much sitting, eating highly processed foods and not getting enough sleep are just some of the habits slowly killing us, one day at a time.
Transforming your health one habit at a time
Focusing on changing your health can be overwhelming, especially if you have tried before without success. Doing ‘ALL’ the things at once can be daunting. Thankfully there is a better way! We can embrace a goal of foundational wellness by building one healthy habit at a time. Foundational wellness is state of overall wellness and thriving, instead of just surviving, through the consistent implementation of health promoting habits for the purpose of improved health outcomes and long-term reduced disease risk. Because when we start with the end in mind by using healthy habits to take your health to the next level there is greater success. We can use healthy habits to slow and even reverse lifestyle disease. Form diet and exercise to sleep and stress management, we can target areas of health one at a time to accumulate healthy habits and better health.
Use healthy habits to take your health to the next level.
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References:
- https://www.medicinenet.com/heart_disease_pictures_slideshow_visual_guide/article.htm
- https://health.clevelandclinic.org/5-healthy-habits-that-prevent-chronic-disease/
by Nina Lane | Sep 7, 2021 | Wellness
Not sure what to expect from nutritional therapy consulting?
Nutritional therapy consulting (a.k.a nutrition consulting) is a foundational approach to assessing your health and nutrition status so that you can take action to improve your health where it matters. It is designed to help you understand the symptoms you are experiencing so that you can make a plan to help you optimize your health. Nutrition consulting sessions educate and empower you to address underlying nutritional deficiencies and health concerns with the foundational approach of nutritional therapy. Whether you are looking for more energy, guidance on making healthy food choices, want to lose weight, or struggling with chronic health issues such as digestive, hormonal or autoimmune- you must start with the foundations and the beginning.
STEP 1 The first step is to figure out where you are and where you want to go.
Nutrition consulting starts with an initial assessment. In this first step your consultant uses a combination of interviewing and assessment tools to investigate and identify imbalances to help you get clear on how you can reach your goals. This helps you get clear your next steps, establish goals and guides in developing your personalized wellness plan.
An Initial Assessment includes some of or all the below depending on your needs as determined by you and your consultant:
The Interview is a series of questions that helps to get to know you and gathers information needed to understand your desires, reasons and goals so that we can find the right path for you.
The Nutri Q is an online nutritional assessment questionnaire. It is based on foundational principles of nutritional therapy. It links signs and symptoms to underlying imbalances and nutritional deficiencies helping to find priority areas where you need to take action to improve your health. The Consultation allows us to dig in and get clear. Using a combination of interviewing and assessment tools to identify and prioritize areas of concerns, establish goals and guide in developing your personalized wellness plan.
Additional objective assessment tools (optional):
Bio Resonance Scan: The ETA-Scan device is a computerized bio-energetic assessment with detailed graphic visualizations, that can detect the energetic conditions of the body’s physiology. With this assessment method, we can detect and evaluate imbalance and dysfunction in the body. This allows the practitioner to target the therapy to the most appropriate areas and visually chart the improvement and track direction of health. Functional Testing: Dig deeper with functional laboratory testing such as mineral or stool testing to bring objective perspective that allows us to target underlying imbalances contributing to DIS-ease.
STEP 2 Outline a clear path to help you reach your goals
Your personalized wellness plan
Based on our time together, your comprehensive health assessment and goal setting session, your personalized wellness plan will be tailored to your specific bio-individual needs. It will include recommendations for lifestyle and diet change ranging from sleep, exercise, when and what to eat. It may also include supplementation as needed (indicated in the assessment).
STEP 3 Build sustainable diet and lifestyle change.
The Food Journal and Meal Planning assessment gathers information on current dietary habits and allows the NT Consultant to make individualized dietary suggestions including recipe collections an/or a custom meal plan depending on your package.
Check in, Follow up and Optimize
While following your personalized wellness plan you can expect to see progress. Here we get to check in regularly and celebrate your progress while trouble-shooting and setting yours goals for the future. Clients benefit from ongoing support and guidance as they progress and optimize their health. Ready to get started on your health journey?
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