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How Nutrition Services Can Benefit You

Diet for Managing Heart Failure

How Our Nutrition Services Can Help You

Many of us do not take our daily nutrition seriously. When it comes to lunch or dinner, we sometimes choose to eat fast food as it convenient and readily available. Seldom do we actually take the time to cook a nutritious meal. Especially if our jobs keep us busy during the entire day, we are left with no energy to come home and cook.

Eating ham sandwiches, burgers, pizzas, etc. become the staple foods in our life. What we have to realize is if we continue this kind of lifestyle, we are neglecting our heart health and are depriving our bodies off essential nutrients and vitamins that come from a healthy home-cooked meal. If you don’t know what nutrients your body requires on a daily basis, then you can easily hire the nutrition services of professionals. Here are some other benefits you get when you go for a nutritional consultation.

  1. Lose weight the right way!

When the word ‘dieting’ comes up people usually misconceive it as having to skip a few meals or go on a salad-only meal routine. However, this is not the correct way to lose weight. A holistic nutritionist will never tell you to skip meals or live only on carrots and cucumbers. Instead, they will give you a weight loss plan to follow. In this plan, you will be advised on what type of foods you should eat. Foods that will help in weight management and keep you healthy.

  1. Reduces health risks:

Eating junk food everyday might do a lot of harm to your body without you knowing it. Fried food increases your cholesterol which may lead to coronary artery disease and even make you obese. On the other hand, regular nutritious meals will help increase your energy levels and make you feel healthier.

  1. Sleep more soundly at night:

Whenever you eat a warm and delicious home-cooked meal, it releases serotonin (a soothing hormone) in the body. This will help you relax more and improve the quality of your sleep.

If need help in deciding what type of healthy foods to include in your daily diet, then use the nutrition services provided by a holistic nutritionist:

About the author

Dr. Cynthia Thaik, M.D., FACC is a Harvard-trained cardiologist serving the greater Los Angeles community at her holistic health center in Burbank and Valencia, CA. Dr. Thaik is the author of Your Vibrant Heart: Restoring Health, Strength, and Spirit from the Body’s Core. To learn more about Dr. Thaik or the Holistic Healing Heart Center, or to schedule an appointment, please contact info@drcynthia.com or call (818) 842-1410.

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