1. What is a visit like?
2. Do you prescribe pills?
3. I always recover the weight after dieting, will this be the same?
4.What is a nutritionist?
5. How can nutritional counseling help me?
1. On your visit, you will be nutritionally assesed, learn useful information and receive your personalized food guide
2. No. You will learn to know food better and select what is best for you, healthy eating is tasty too!
3. No. When you recover the weight after dieting, it is probably because you have lost weight by loosing water and muscle mass. If you loose weight by loosing fat, and learn and practice simple facts about food and how our body works, then you can maintain a healthy weight.
4. In Mexico, the nutritionist is the licenced professional that can counsel about nutrition related diseases and conditions. You need a college degree, similar to a registered dietitian in private practice in the USA and Canada. I have a B.Sc. in Clinical Biochemistry and a Masters Degree in Clinical Nutrition and courses in education, all of them allowing me to give professional advice, helping my patients to achieve their healthy weight (confirmed both by body composition and laboratory test in the normal range)
5. Nutritional counseling can be useful if you want to learn more about how your body reacts to different foods or eating habits and/or if you have one of the following conditions:Being overweight, obese, with gastro esophagic reflux disease (GERD), diabetes, low body weight, high blood pressure, high cholesterol levels and others. Nutritional counseling also helps you preventing diseases such as osteoporosis and other chronic conditions, improving your quality of life.