Category: nutrition

What’s Your Daily Nutrition Like?

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Topic starter: What you eat and drink in a 24 hour period.   Energy: You need energy for daily activities. What is converted into energy proteins, fats, and carbohydrates in the recommended quantities. Energy fuels your body, you need metabolism for physical activity. If you consume too much energy for your body to process, so when you burn off the metabolism for your activities for the day, the excess is stored as body fat. Balance your energy consumption. The more active you are the more energy you need.   Fat:…

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How nutrition or diets changes as you age

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Topic starter: Many times, knowing what works is just as valuable as knowing what doesn’t work. Nutrition changes with age. Aging is linked to a variety of changes in the body, including muscle loss, your skin gets thinner, less stomach. acid which can affect the absorption of nutrients, such as vitamin B12, calcium, iron and magnesium. The elderly have an increase risk of malnourishment, a decline in general functional status and to decrease bone mass, immune dysfunction How Nutritional Needs Change as we get Older Fewer Calories are needed: If…

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What foods do you love or hate?

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Topic starter: If your nutritional foods, just sit in the fridge, it not going to do much. Start with foods that you love or appreciate, with an aim of adding on from there. Blue Cheese Is it the flecked mold or the pungent smells that dissuades people to eat this cheese?. Coriander With a distinctive lemony-ginger aroma, coriander will either test the taste-buds or tantalize them. Anchovies Salty or sickly, anchovies definitely divide the crowd Tuna Is there something fishy about tuna? The smell seems to stay with you. Mayonnaise…

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Why did you decide to seek nutritional counseling?

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Topic starter: You may have been diagnosed with a chronic condition, or maybe you just want to lose 10 pounds. There are benefits from working with a nutritionist, you are looking to manage a medical condition, looking for a complete diet overhaul, or you want to have healthier choices in your diet. It’s best to book a nutrition consultation after a check-up with your primary care provider. specifically  conditions that can be addressed with nutrition, such as elevated blood sugar or cholesterol, or blood pressure issues. While some patients come…

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