Healthy Nutrition and Diet Counseling
Diet is not a short-term and accelerated program for losing weight. Diet is the proper nutrition program that should be arranged for the person to be nourished by balancedly taking from all food groups optimally in accordance with the person’s health condition, age, sex and life style.
What Is Diet Counseling?
Diet counseling is providing the necessary service for the person to receive a professional help to apply the proper diet program.
In the diet counseling, the patient’s general health condition, weight state, weight problem, body mass index are evaluated. Underlying reasons of patient’s weight state and weight problem determine by how a nutrition program these problems can be solved. Accordingly, firstly the patient’s body is prepared for the diet program with preliminary preparation and programs, and it is required to make the patient to grasp that the diet type, in other words nutrition style should be made lifelong life-style.
After these stages in the preliminary diet meeting, forming a special diet program is the second stage in diet counseling.
At this stage, some criteria are taken into consideration and firstly it is tried to bring the patient in the ideal weight. By prioritizing the health, weight maintaining program and some points to take for life into consideration are explained to the person getting close to the ideal weight in this process spreading over a long process. Diet counseling is performed in this way in the result of the nutrition program applied by the patient and doctor in a joint process with patience.
Diet counseling is a service given by the dieticians who give all services for the person to learn the proper nutrition, know his/her body and reach his/her ideal weight. Diet counseling does not consist of only one meeting. In all periods determined by the doctor, the person should go to the control without a delay. Accordingly, the diet program can be revised by providing control in each meeting.
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