Everyone wants to keep sound health. Sound Health Solutions offers customizable programs designed to address each client's needs. All programs are comprised of the four cornerstones of exercise, nutrition, behavioral therapy and medical supervision. Each section is customized and individualized based on your needs. The goal of SHS is to provide the services, tools and information necessary to incorporate healthy habits into your life.
Methods and Philosophy
Nutrition Philosophy The nutrition philosophy of SHS focuses on healthful eating patterns for a lifetime rather than temporary calorie and food restrictions. Registered Dietitians work with each client to develop individualized healthy eating patterns that meet their unique nutritional needs and medical histories. It is our priority to emphasize healthier eating patterns in which the client learns to regulate the quality and quantity of their food, through education and greater attention to their internal cues of hunger and satiety. Nutrition counseling is critical to the success of a healthy lifestyle and a weight management program.
Nutrition Education
Nutrition education focuses on the following topics: importance of food variety, benefits of food journaling, identifying hunger and fullness levels, designing personalized nutrition plans, interpreting food labels, understanding diet and disease relationships, strategically dining out, modifying recipes, balancing challenging food occasions, achieving a lifetime commitment to improved nutrition patterns, and writing nutritional goals for health. Nutrition education is achieved with one-to-one counseling and nutrition group seminars.
Nutrition Outcomes
Specific dietary outcomes include evaluating the nutritional adequacy of the diet by assessing intake of the three macronutrients: carbohydrates, protein, and fats and vitamins and minerals. This is completed by food journaling and nutrition analysis. In addition, the Registered Dietitian helps prevent or reduce risk factors for chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes and cancer. Nutrition counseling is a vital component in reaching and maintaining permenant weight loss.
American Dietetic Association
All nutrition professionals at Sound Health Solutions are Registered Dietitians. With nearly 70,000 members, the American Dietetic Association is the nation's largest organization of food and nutrition professionals. The ADA serves the public by promoting optimal nutrition, health and well-being. The food and nutrition professionals of the American Dietetic Association are the public's and the news media's best source of the most timely, accurate and credible information on eating well. Web site: www.eatright.org
Training Philosophy
Physical activity can and should be valued for its own sake and for the health, fitness and well-being that it offers. However, there is no “one size fits all” physical activity program.
The types of activities that will be enjoyed, the amount of aerobic exercise needed to achieve weight loss, and the ideal balance between strength, aerobic, and flexibility training will all vary from individual to individual. The Sound Health Solutions Program provides a safe and effective exercise program, designed specifically for each individual, which will increase self-esteem, self-efficiency, and most importantly, overall health.
Reasons for Participating in this Physical Activity Program
One of the most powerful tools for overall health is physical activity. Regular activity, even in the absence of weight reduction, can improve blood pressure, cholesterol levels, energy levels, as well as blood sugar levels. It reduces the risks of developing heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes and many other chronic diseases. In this program the client will become stronger, develop endurance, gain energy, and improve body composition by decreasing body fat percentage while increasing lean. The client will also learn basic exercise principles that will enable them to make effective exercise a part of their everyday life.
We believe we all know how to lead our lives in healthy and positive ways. However, over the years of coping with life’s pressures and perhaps developing bad habits, we have created barriers to listening to, and acting in accordance with, our inner knowledge of what is good for us.
Behavior Change Philosophy
We know the instincts for healthy living are there. They are just buried under a layer of harmful attitudes and misperceptions. In order to maximize the benefits we will see from adding exercise and nutritional awareness to our lives, we also need to learn to change our habits about how we make decisions, how we see ourselves and how we treat our bodies.
Reasons for Participating in Behavior Change
The Behavior Change component of this program gives you the tools you need to commit to a new vision of your life and take control of the obstacles that stand in your way. With the guidance of a counselor skilled in the field of behavior change, you will:
a) gain awareness about your competing motives for health behaviors,
b) learn how to replace unhealthy practices with healthy ones, and
c) receive information about how to resolve the conflicts, manage the stress, and deal with the emotions that interrupt your natural inclination to live in a healthy way.
The group format taps into the benefit of having a supportive, fun connection with others while gaining new perspective, encouragement and accountability. We’ll share with each other the gratification that comes with taking charge of the present, exploring possibilities and redirecting our paths toward a healthier, more fulfilling future.
Uniqueness
By giving you one place where you can augment your knowledge about nutrition, exercise and behavior change, Sound Health Solutions offers a unique and clinically proven program where you can build a new lifestyle based on your own convictions about healthy living.
This empowering approach to lifestyle change is not based on submission to someone else’s instructions to you about what to eat and how to work out. That kind of externally imposed set of rules often leads to failure when, eventually, we tire of it and rebel against it, because, though we tried it on for a while…we never really changed.
The Sound Health Solutions approach invites you to begin an adventure in wellness, where you use the guidance of experts to discover the lifelong changes that work for you, where you come to desire the foods that nourish you and to have fun engaging in sustainable activities that revitalize you and promote your long-term health.
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