Why Purpose Matters: A Guide for Dietitians and Lifestyle Medicine Practitioners
Dietitians and lifestyle medicine practitioners can ask simple questions to enhance their own health and that of their clients. Surprisingly, these questions focus on what gives individuals a sense of meaning, purpose, or significance in life. Understanding your own sense of meaning and purpose is crucial, as it can help clients find their own sense […]
What does meaning & purpose have to do with nutrition counseling?
Many times, practitioners may underestimate the impact of their interactions with their patients. Often with limited time, dietitians rush in and out may wonder if they have made a difference and met the patient needs. What can the dietitian do to ensure that they are helpful? Current research[i] shows that patients like it when dietitians listen […]
The Fast Mimicking Diet: A Simple Way to Improve Health and Longevity
Have you heard of the fast mimicking diet? It’s a trendy approach to eating that’s gaining popularity for its potential health benefits. But what exactly is it, and how can it benefit you? The fast mimicking diet is a short-term dietary plan designed to mimic the effects of fasting while still providing essential nutrients. Unlike […]
Discouraged with the Scale? How to Outsmart Your Body: TIP 1
You think, I’m hardly eating anything and the scale stays the same. What am I supposed to do?
Five Easy Ways to Curb Sugar Cravings
Most of us can relate to the sensation: we’re not hungry but we’re not satisfied. We want something sweet: sugar, chocolate, soda. What we’re after is almost or is intangible because we know we are seeking something that is not addressing actual hunger. Are we feeding a different hunger besides physical hunger? Often, we are […]
What We Can Do to Have a Strong Foundation: Our Bones and Osteoporosis
What is the problem? So, you’re probably wondering if your bones are healthy, and even if you need to pay attention to what you’re eating and doing to take care of them? Maybe you know an elderly relative or friend who fractured a hip or noticed their stooped posture, but you don’t know what that […]
Getting Started with Winning Lifestyle to Manage/Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally!
In a world where 1 in 10 people have diabetes, you may be wondering if there is anything that can help? The answer to this question could not only include the use of medication, maybe for short term. What we eat with some plant-forward eating, our exercise, how we sleep and manage stress have all […]
