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• Diabetes

  Diabetes is a disease in which the body does not produce or properly use its insulin, a hormone that converts sugar, starch and other foods to energy. People with diabetes have trouble controlling their blood sugar, which can lead to kidney, nerve and eye disease, even death. Medical Nutrition Therapy(MNT) provided by your Registered Dietitian at DietGenics can help you take charge of your diabetes, and along with your doctor’s treatment plan, lead a better quality of life.

  Medical Nutrition Therapy(MNT) program offers education and diabetes management strategies that complementing your doctor’s treatment plan. Your dietitian offers individual centered approach to help you take better charge of your diabetes and lead a healthier life. Your dietitian also provides coaching for a better understanding of your condition and encourage self-management skills.

  Your dietitian works with you to establish individualized goals and guide you through behavior changes needed to achieve those goals. Behavior change may focus on methods to remove obstacles to compliance with established treatment plans and to reduce unhealthy eating behaviors. Your dietitian can assist you in increasing compliance with recommended care and in adopting behaviors that can lead to improved health.

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• Weight Management

  Weight Management nutrition counseling based on Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT) focuses on behavior, diet, and physical activity as the major areas of goal setting. Your Registered Dietitian will assess how each of these areas are currently contributing to your weight gain or loss and establishes a weight management plan with you. This plan is set in conjunction with a doctor’s treatment plan for any specific medical condition that is needed. This treatment plan is not a “quick fix” or involves any drugs but is targeted towards the long term healthy life.

  Your dietitian will analyze your nutritional behavioral patterns and make recommendations for improvement. A food diary will specifically point out your diet intake in order for the dietitian to analyze and make recommended changes that are carried into the dietary intake goals. Your level of physical activity will be evaluated and practical recommendations made for exercise complemented with your doctor’s recommendations. Your dietitian will be with you, coaching you to help make changes step-by-step and set realistic goals where you are more likely to succeed in reaching them. It may take a bit longer than the promised “quick fix” weight loss solutions, but this is a long-term lifestyle approach and investment in your future well being.

  For bariatric and lap-band patients, Araceli Vázquez has had extensive experience with these treatment plans with over 800 nutritional consultations conducted specifically for these procedures.

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• Coaching and Family Nutrition

  Family nutrition is about supporting each other in the changes neeed to bring about a healthier family nutritional environment. Children are often more willing to eat healthy foods and be active if they see their parents and other family members doing these things first. Your Registered Dietitian can help you set the family goals to get every member of your family involved in healthy eating and physical activity.

  Family nutrition therapy will assist you in reaching behavioral modifications, improving your diet, and increasiing physical activity as a family team.

  This therapy has been found very effective in treating child obesity where the child will feel singled out or punished for being overweight. Even after you’ve incorporated family nutrition therapy and physical activity into your family’s routine, it will take time to notice a change in your child’s weight and the overall as this is not a “quick fix” weight loss solution rather an overall nutritional lifestyle development for a long term healthy life.

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• Healthy Shopping, Pantry, and Kitchen Reviews

  Need a shopping buddy that is an expert in nutrition? Have you wished you could have a nutritional expert in your kitchen to provide guidance on how to best prepare foods for nutritional value for you and your family? Do you wonder how the foods in your pantry fare out in terms of nutritional value? Well, your Registered Dietian is available to provide personal nutritional consultations in the comfort of your home or your local grocery store.

  The decisions we make at the supermarket, the manner in which we prepare our foods, and what choices we make for nutritional value in the food we purchase all contribute to the bottom line of you and your family’s nutritional well-being. Allow your dietitian to come over and be your shopping buddy, visit your kitchen, and browse around your pantry and provide the best recommendations for healthy food and nutritional practices.

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• Education and Corporate Programs

  Araceli Vázquez can prepare a customized presentation on nutrition for your office, church, or organization. Her services also include spokesperson, expert testimony to the media, newspaper column author, as well as traditional academic and community nutrition course offering.

  Araceli’s background includes spokesperson for various corporations including Bimbo, Roche Diagnostics, and others. Araceli is an expert in nutrition that has appeared on local television and radio stations providing expert guidance to the community. Her education experience includes being an adjunct professor at the Dallas County Community College District (DCCCD). She is also contributing author to the bi-weekly nutrition column, Vida Sana, on Belo Corporations’s Al DIA spanish language newspaper in Dallas, Texas.

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