The Lifestyle Nutrition Counseling Program®

You constantly advise your patients, to lose weight, lower their cholesterol, eat more fiber or cut out the unhealthy sugars and fats. But, as a busy physician, you don't have the time to put together a personal nutritional plan or review diet sheets put together by pharmaceutical companies for each of your patients. As a result, patient compliance is poor.

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THE SOLUTION

The answer is to teach your assistant how to provide a custom program that allows the patient to create their own program of food so that whether you are a Californian vegetarian or an Alabama meat eater, the patient will learn a system or program of eating to lose weight, control blood sugar, decrease insulin resistance and manage or prevent disease.

The Lifestyle Nutrition Program® provides customized individualized nutritional programs for each patient without pushing (selling) the nutritional products and food restrictions. The customization of the program to the patient’s metabolic rate, age, height, weight, lean mass and activity level assures getting the clinical results without hunger or fatigue. The program is based on education, and long-term behavior modification techniques - It’s a Lifestyle …Not A Diet!! ® our slogan is the basis for long-term compliance, without deprivation. The patients find the program to be a positive uplifting experience and as a result client word of mouth referrals usually produce significant revenues into the practice.

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After Nutrition Counseling

The answer - To teach medical assistants how to use a metabolic analyzer to provide a custom program that allows the patient to create their own nutrition program of food. The patient will learn a system or program of eating to lose weight, control blood sugar, decrease insulin resistance and manage or prevent disease instead of carb or calorie counting Meal Plan Examples & Info  .

With the Lifestyle Nutrition Program®, your patients will receive credible nutrition information designed by progressive registered dietitian’s and physicians.

Lifestyle Nutrition believes that your recommendations as a physician should become a lifestyle and not just another diet.

Having set up and trained well over 700 physicians nation-wide with nutrition counseling programs, I understand how difficult it is to decide which program is the “best” to follow for you and your patients.

Eating only shakes and packaged foods, or following a rapid weight loss detoxification program without the proper systematic reintroduction of real food back into the patients routine generally causes approximately 60 % of individuals to regain the weight they lost back. Nutritional manufactures attempt to make it easier for consumers & health care providers to provide nutritional products to their patients to get the clinical results they are looking for. Often these products dilute the message to our patients that there are innumerable benefits to eating healthy functional whole foods as a source of nutrients in our daily routine. Often patients stop buying their nutritional products, they start back on “regular food,” & have not developed the skills of managing their blood sugar, appetite and cravings properly. A systematic introduction of healthy food using software based weekly-customized learning modules into the patients diet is an effective program or long-term behavior modification. It allows for the counseling sessions in chiropractors offices to individualize to the patients lifestyle therefore being a positive and effective experience. Lastly, the economic and marketing implications on a chiropractic practice by implementing a Lifestyle Nutrition Counseling Wellness Program are significant.

With software developers and researchers teaming together, it is now possible to utilize your office assistant to provide custom meal plans for your patients. Here a very small snapshot of a systematic approach improving patients’ macronutrient food intake to reduce health risks, and improve their quality of life considering their food preferences and lifestyle.

By using a nutritional, metabolic typing, meal planning software and a metabolic analyzer to measure the patients metabolic rate, lean mass, resting energy expenditure, calories burn by aerobic & resistance exercises (if exercising) you can now determine what percentage of calories should come from carbohydrates, protein and fat. Macronutrients percentages should be a sliding scale, depending on lean muscle mass, activity level, age, sex, stress level of the patient and body type. Your patients will feel better; have more energy and fewer cravings when you provide the correct amount of carbohydrates, proteins and fats.

What doctors like the most is the ability for the software to incorporate any nutritional product directly into the meal plan and make the calculations accordingly.

Working with software developers & researchers at the University of Southern California, software is now simplified to allow any clinical assistant to enter the data into a computer and a the type of meal plan desired with the patients desired number of meals and goals and then print the entire program with all the foods spelled out for them in just minutes.

 

 

The average client would usually come into your practice for 3-6 nutritional consultations over 3-6 weeks. However if time or economics are a factor you will be able to provide a complete customized meal plan and exercise program in 10 – 15 minutes during one session. We remind our patients that making 6-10 small changes each week are more effective than doing everything all at once. We provide you with shopping lists to provide your patients in conventional and /or progressive supermarkets that help your patients incorporate specific foods into their diet.

Each week one concentrates on one small aspect of eating and remember and the key is to provide the exact name brand foods, a shopping list and a clear set of goals that focus on food and food combinations so your patients learn by doing and ar not just counting grams of carbs, fat, or food groups which are usually too general. Each week your patient will come in for 15 –20 minute sessions.

America’s problem is the average cost for a commercial weight loss program for 20-pound weight loss is between $960 –1200 and is not physician supervised. Our program usually costs 30-40 % of the cost of most commercial weight loss programs in the US. Our physician supervised programs usually cost patients between $295- $995.00 for 3-8, 15 minute nutritional sessions, 2 consultations with the doctor and 6 consultations with the clinical assistant.

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