What is Nutritional Counseling - Nutrition With Joy Pacito

Nutritional counseling is the use of dietary solutions as a natural therapy to improve the state of one's health. Joy will design a comprehensive personal program for you that is easy to live with. This means you will eat normal foods from your local grocery store.

During your initial appointment Joy will review the 2 assessment forms ( Symptom Survey Form and 3-day Food Journal) that you would have already returned to her office.

Joy will conduct a thorough nutritional evaluation. At this session we will review your past and current diet. Joy will ask questions about food cravings, appetite, sleep habits, digestion, fatigue, exercise patterns and stress levels. She will also ask about your general health history and that of your family of origin. Because this is a wholistic health care assessment it is important for Joy to see you as a whole person and not as a 'case'.

You will leave the session with precise and accurate recommendations as to which specific foods and categories of food will best suit you. You can start eating in an improved way at your very next meal. The food recommendations are manageable, easily obtained from your local grocer or restaurant and inexpensive.

Accurate and therapeutic supplement recommendations are sometimes made to support and reestablish physiologic balance within the body. Supplements may be recommended for a period of about 12 weeks to help you and remind the body how to return to a state of balance. The goal is to correct and improve nutritional imbalances through the use of common foods.

Oftentimes there is an improvement in the person's energy levels with 7-14 days. Eating the correct foods for your body as well as supplementing with the highest quality vitamins and mineral formulas which match your needs may make a tremendous difference in how you feel each day. In her career in nutritional counseling Joy has been constantly amazed at the enduring power of good nutrition and the positive effects that can be seen in energy levels, quality of sleep, weight issues and general mood. In her private practice in Connecticut Joy works with people of all ages from infants to elders.

Typical clients include:

College students who sincerely want to eat well to enhance college life as well as their studies
Perimenopausal and menopausal women who are overwhelmed with stress and experiencing hot flashes, fatigue, mood swings and weight gain
Business women and men who desire improved energy levels, stamina and memory capacity
Teenagers and their parents who want to avoid the junk food patterns of eating
People who experience bloating and gassiness and never feel as though they digest meal properly
Folks who are plagued with sugar, carbohydrate or salt cravings
People who want to learn more about their personal nutritional need
People who are already diagnosed with a particular condition. It is essential to know what foods will help and which to avoid
Men and women who want to learn how to improve their cholesterol levels naturally through good nutrition