28 Jan Personalized Nutrition: Find the Foods that Energize and Revitalize YOU
Many of us are aware that our health and wellbeing would improve if we changed our eating habits and lifestyle patterns, but recent research suggests that people receiving personalized nutritional advice do better with those changes and sustain them longer.
The “personalized nutrition” approach stems from individualizing advice and support so that each of you can be more motivated to make the required dietary (and lifestyle) changes necessary for your unique needs.
Generic advice including eat whole foods and emphasize quality non-adulterated fats daily is certainly good advice for the global population as a whole. But recent studies suggest that personalized nutrition, particularly from a clinical perspective that uses evidence-based information to derive specific advice relevant to your personal health concerns, is more effective at helping people make important changes to their eating pattern.
On average, studies show that personalized advice results in double the improvement in overall healthiness of people’s diets and from a physician’s perspective, I would expect this to translate to big improvements in health and wellbeing.
Reaching out. As many of you are aware, I commit my monthly newsletters and weekly blog posts to help people make important changes to their eating and lifestyle patterns. I do this because I believe education is critically empowering and has huge public health benefits.
What’s exciting about taking the next step towards a clinic visit and personalization is it’s more effective at improving people’s health than the conventional ‘one size fits all’ approach. Online information can be digested and used to work out the personalized approach relevant to your health needs and goals (based on risk assessment, general health status, symptom profile, medical history, lifestyle and lab work).
Importantly, according to research, people who stay with the personalized approach make dietary changes that are sustained 6 months later. Taken together, research suggests that such an approach is a valuable tool and should be part of our public health campaigns as it has the potential for helping a great number of people attain their health goals and thus improve our population’s heath and wellbeing.
So, see you soon?
Reference
International Journal of Epidemiology. DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyw186