4 Ways Nutritional Counseling Improves Your Health

For many of our patients at PMR, nutrition isn’t the number one priority. And there’s nothing wrong with that—if you’re experiencing debilitating pain or symptoms of a disease, for example, it’s only natural that you’ll seek out more direct solutions, which often take the form of modalities like chiropractic care and acupuncture.

Ultimately, however, what we put into our bodies has an incredible impact on the way we feel. Knowing that, let’s take a look at a few of the important ways in which diet and nutrition can influence one’s overall health and well-being.

1. Eliminating Risk Factors

Apart from its role in helping to manage and prevent specific diseases, nutritional counseling can go a long way toward reducing or eliminating risk factors that make health problems more likely down the road—even for those leading otherwise healthy lifestyles.

Nutritional counselors are able to achieve this by helping patients manage blood pressure, blood sugar, cholesterol, weight gain, and other important indicators of overall health. With the guidance, motivation, and diagnostic tools of a nutritional counselor on your side, eliminating risk becomes easier, and the likelihood of developing certain health problems is significantly reduced.

2. Disease Prevention

Although related to the management of risk factors, nutritional counseling can be more specifically applied to the prevention of particular diseases. Most commonly, adult patients will seek counseling in order to prevent the onset of type 2 diabetes. By managing and improving dietary habits, patients who are at risk of developing the disease can see that risk decline sharply. These same methods apply to other types of disease as well, including heart disease.

3. Managing Diseases and Health Problems

For those who have been diagnosed with diseases which may relate to diet and nutrition—including heart disease, diabetes, and digestive conditions—nutritional counseling can be very beneficial as a method of managing the symptoms and progression of the condition. Through the unique combination of our individualized approach—based on each patient’s preferences, habits, and lifestyle obstacles—and the rigorous training undergone by our licensed nutritional counselors, we help our patients make changes that bolster overall health, improve symptoms, and fight back against diseases in the long term.

4. Feeling Great

If you’re not especially concerned about disease, risk factors, and health problems that may be lurking in the future, it might seem that nutritional counseling won’t be able to help you. But the truth is, eating better and treating your body right will lead you to feel healthier and stronger, no matter your age or condition.

Often, improving your diet leads you to care for your body and treat it even better—which in turn means better health outcomes in the long term. Not only that, but a more balanced diet can have you feeling happier, more energetic, more motivated—and ready to handle any of the daily stressors and hurdles that life throws your way.

For more information or to schedule an appointment with a nutritional counselor or registered dietitian, give the experts at PMR a call today!