Nutrition Counseling |New Beginnings Baltimore

Nutrition Counseling

NUTRITION AND HEALTH COACHING

New beginnings Baltimore offers nutrition counseling and health coaching for everyone in your family. We help people create a healthy lifestyle through individualized nutrition programs and transformational health coaching which promotes lasting habit change. Each program is personalized to address whatever health concerns you may have, while helping you achieve your wellness goals.

We work with individuals struggling with everything from digestive or eating disorders to becoming a strong athlete.

However, with obesity, diabetes and heart disease becoming epidemic in our country today, our primary focus is helping people lose weight.  We will help you discover what foods are magic for your personal metabolism and what foods are toxic to you. We will dive into the psychology of your eating habits and discover when to eat, how to eat and where to eat and even who you are being while you eat to achieve lasting personal results.

Health and fitness mean so much more than fitting into your skinny jeans or winning a marathon. Total wellness means having a life free of illness and full of vitality! We believe we can help you fall in love with your body and your life!

There is no time like the present to experience your own NEW BEGINNING!

Here are few suggestions to help you get started:

• Set up a complementary consultation to discuss your nutrition and fitness goals and how we can help you.
• Choose a program that is right for you! Be sure to ask about our financing plans to make losing weight or getting healthy easy and affordable.
• If you want to spot reduce or jumpstart a serious weight loss program, begin with our Vevazz laser-like lipo- treatments and full body vibration treatments. (We guarantee you will drop 2-8 dress sizes in 42 days just with these treatments alone and they are completely holistic and healthy!)
• Put together a bio-individualized nutrition program to help you not only lose inches but drop weight and keep it off, while experiencing an abundance of foods right for you!
• Consider going green to get the toxins out of your cells and promote healing!
• Contact us to learn more!
• Dehydrated skin!

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A Diet and Exercise Plan to Lose Weight and Gain Muscle

If there is a holy grail of weight loss, it would be a program that allows someone to shed fat rapidly while hanging on to or even augmenting muscle. Ideally, it would also be easy.

A new study describes a workout and diet regimen that accomplishes two of those goals remarkably well. But it may not be so easy.

For most of us, losing weight and keeping it off is difficult. If you consume fewer calories than your body requires for daily operations, it turns to internal sources of fuel. Those sources consist of body fat and lean tissue, meaning muscle. When someone on a diet drops a pound of body mass (a measure that does not include water), much of that pound consists of fat. But about a third or more can be made up of muscle.

The problem with losing muscle is that, unlike fat tissue, muscle burns calories. Having less muscle means a lower resting metabolic rate, so you burn fewer calories throughout the day. Losing muscle may also discourage physical activity, which is important for maintaining weight loss.

So researchers have long been looking for weight loss programs that produce hefty amounts of fat loss but diminish any decline in muscle.

For scientists at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, that goal seemed to demand a high dose of protein and also plenty of exercise.

As the scientists knew, amino acids in protein help muscle tissue to maintain itself and to grow. Many past studies have suggested that low-calorie but high-protein diets can result in less muscle loss than the same number of calories but less protein.

However, the best dosage of protein in these circumstances has remained unclear, as has the role, if any, for exercise.

So for the new study, which was published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, the McMaster researchers rounded up 40 overweight young men who were willing to commit to an intensive weight-loss program and divided them in half.

All of the young men began a diet in which their daily calories were cut by about 40 percent (compared to what they needed to maintain weight). But for half of them, this consisted of about 15 percent protein, 35 percent fat and 50 percent carbohydrates.

The other 20 volunteers began a diet that mimicked that of the first group, except that theirs swapped the protein and fat ratios, so that 35 percent of their calories came from protein and 15 percent from fat. Over all, their protein intake was about three times the recommended dietary allowance for most people.

The researchers handled that switch by changing the make-up of a supplied drink. In the low-protein group, the beverage contained high-fat milk and no added protein. For the others, it consisted of low-fat milk and a large dollop of whey protein.

All of the men also began a grueling workout routine. Six days a week they reported to the exercise lab and completed a strenuous full-body weight training circuit, high-intensity intervals, or a series of explosive jumps and other exercises known as plyometric training.

The diet and exercise routine continued for four weeks, by the end of which time, “those guys were done,” said Stuart Phillips, who holds a research chair in skeletal muscle health at McMaster University and oversaw the study. “All they could talk about was food.”

Source: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/02/03/a-diet-and-exercise-plan-to-lose-weight-and-gain-muscle/?_r=0

LET’S TALK ABOUT OMEGA 3 FATTY ACIDS

Omega 3s have received quite a bit of publicity over the past few years, but truthfully they have been considered an important fatty acid since I was in college studying Nutrition back in the 1970’s and 80’s. Over the past 30 years we have learned a lot about omegas. While I was in college I remember going to the local health food store with fellow Nutrition majors prior to exams to stock up on stinky, fishy, foul tasting capsules to improve our memories. And let me tell you, they were gross! Research was already published back in the 80’s proving they could help with memory and attention, but we have since learned so much more and been able to do so much more to improve upon products containing omega 3s!

So let’s dive into your science lesson for today. Omega 3s are fatty acids, which are considered good fats. Our bodies need fats in our diet, but there are good fats and bad fats. Bad fats are primarily found in saturated fats and trans- fats. Saturated fats are solid fats from sources such as beef, dark meat chicken, butter, whole milk dairy and egg yolks. Trans-fats are synthetically-made hydrogenated fatty acids appearing in products such as vegetable shortenings, margarine and many snack foods. Omega 3s, on the other hand, can come from some plant sources such as flax seeds, chia seeds and walnuts, or from cold water fish, krill and egg oil. ALA omegas, which come from plants such as flax seeds, are very good for fighting inflammation, fighting free radical damage and acting as antioxidants in your body. They are also good for your metabolism and may help with regularity, so they are great to have in your diet. However, EPA and DHA omegas are magical omegas!

EPA and DHA are incredible fatty acids, which cannot be manufactured by the body, but come from cold water fish such as salmon, cod, tuna, anchovies, sardines and mackerel. They are life giving to our bodies! They have been proven to aid in circulation and blood flow, dramatically help improve joint health, improve eye health and boost your immune system with their anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties. But their greatest claims to fame are in helping to increase cognitive ability and to prevent heart disease.

There is so much here to talk about, so we will stick with one topic at a time. Let’s talk about the brain today. Did you know that 90% of your brain is made up of fat cells and 70% of those fats are omega 3s? By consuming the proper balance of DHA omegas to EPA omegas (a ratio of 2:1) every day, you can actually increase the number of brain cells you have and even increase the size of your brain. Now don’t worry, your head won’t suddenly get larger and your brain won’t explode, but you will definitely get smarter! Additionally, it’s important to know our brains usually shrink with age. In fact, our brains will usually start shrinking at age 45, ending up 11% lighter in weight than in early adulthood.

Read more at: http://www.newbeginningsbaltimore.com/blog/omega-threes/

Vitamin and Mineral Supplements

Are you Considering a Vitamin or Mineral Supplement? 

Many people turn to dietary supplements to support their health and prevent nutrient deficiencies. However, many people turning to supplements do not understand exactly what their body needs. Therefore, they are simply putting supplements in their body without a plan or knowledge of exactly what their body needs. That is why at New Beginnings, we offer nutritional counseling for our patients.