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Nutrition + Wellness

Why working with a registered nutritionist is important?

  • Prevent and manage chronic diseases
  • Reach personal health goals
  • Reduce healthcare costs
  • Improve self-image and body acceptance
  • Navigate food allergies and intolerances
  • Resolve digestive issues
  • Reduce stress
  • Improve sleep and energy levels
  • Many more!

Meet Megan Paydar, Ph.D.,RDN, LDN.

Dr. Paydar is an amazing registered dietitian who earned her doctorate degree in Nutritional Sciences from Howard University. Dr. Paydar has extensive experience completing nutritional assessments and lifestyle change recommendations for patients of various backgrounds and nutritional needs. She pays attention to detail, and comprehensive approach to wellness and functioning, using food as medicine to help them to achieve their goals through her expertise. Her mission is to make nutrition accessible, simple, enjoyable, and a part of clients’ everyday life!

Dr. Paydar’s nutrition counseling sessions are specifically designed for various medical conditions and lifestyles including but not limited to:

Renal diet

Kidney diet is highly specialized, renal dietitians have more training in how diet affects kidney function, bones, and the heart.

Heart healthy diet

Eating a diet high in saturated fats, trans fat, and cholesterol has been linked to heart disease and related conditions.

Diet and weight loss

Weight loss counseling incorporates the emotional and mental health factors that can inhibit weight loss.

Diabetic diet

If you have diabetes or prediabetes, see a dietitian to help you control your blood sugar (glucose)

Diet for high blood pressure

The DASH diet limits foods that are high in sodium, saturated fat, and added sugars, to control hypertension.

Diet for high cholesterol

Research strongly suggests that diet is an important factor when it comes to high cholesterol and resulting heart disease.

Did you know that Nutrition counseling is widely covered by many insurance plans?

Call to see what Insurances is covered for nutrition service

RENAL DIET

Currently, only 10% of patients with kidney disease see a dietitian before reaching end-stage renal failure and undergoing dialysis. Fortunately, nutritional factors can significantly impact the progression of CKD. At a minimum, a careful diet can help preserve patients’ remaining kidney function and treat complications of the disease. In some cases, nutrition also may help patients regain kidney function they’ve previously lost. Accurate nutritional assessments are critical for patients with CKD, because nutrition needs vary significantly from patient to patient and from one stage of the disease to the next. Medical nutrition therapy makes a huge difference, and you can slow or prevent the progression of kidney disease with MNT.

HEART HEALTHY DIET

Evidence shows the effectiveness of healthy dietary patterns and lifestyles for the prevention of CVD. Thus, the challenge is in promoting healthy dietary habits as well as an active lifestyle as early as possible. Eating a variety of foods is beneficial to our health and can help reduce our risk of disease (including heart disease). Poor diet quality is strongly associated with elevated risk of cardiovascular disease morbidity and mortality.

DIET AND WEIGHT LOSS

Obesity’s impact on mental and emotional health is compounded with its link to many weight-related comorbidities and complications that impact several organ systems that can cause great patient burden and lead to increased morbidity and mortality. Weight loss may always be the best answer for improving one’s health, body positivity is essential to good health, because the concept involves taking good care of the only body one has. Focusing on the principles of body positivity can be combined with respectful and complete obesity care involving shared decision making on healthful eating and physical activity recommendations, behavioral therapy, psychotherapy, pharmacotherapy, and surgery.

DIABETIC DIET

Type 2 diabetes is thought to have become an epidemic in the United States because of a combination of an aging population and our increased rates of obesity. We can’t control our age, but we can and do control how much and what types of foods we eat and how much physical activity we engage in—and that, in turn, influences our risk for DM2. Dietary changes are specifically recommended to reduce your risk for type 2 diabetes.

DIET FOR HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE

You should follow a healthful eating pattern just as you would to reduce your risk for hypertension. Many healthy diet interventions aimed at reducing the risk for CVD center on reducing HTN. Personalized nutrition will tell you how to better control blood pressure and what types of foods will provide more benefits.

High Cholesterol

Medical nutrition therapy is the primary treatment for hyperlipidemia. It involves reducing the quantity and types of fats and often calories in the diet. When the amount of dietary fat is reduced, there is typically a corresponding reduction in the amount of cholesterol and saturated fat ingested and a loss of weight. In overweight persons, weight loss alone will help reduce serum cholesterol levels.

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