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WHY SMART 'n SAVVY?

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As a Registered Dietitian, I have spent years educating people and attempting to motivate them, to change to a healthier way of eating. In many cases the education and counseling I did was due to a physician's order that the person needed a therapeutic diet. Sometimes this related to an acute illness, but for the most part it was because a chronic health problem existed and the appropriate diet could potentially help to lengthen their life or at the least, increase the quality of their life. The ideal situation, of course,  would be for us all to practice lifelong preventive nutrition.

Many times healthcare organizations sponsor seminars for either the general public, or for specific groups, to educate them on how to prevent or decrease their chances of getting diseases assosiated with lifestyle. ( example: heart disease). I have spoken at many of these events in an attempt to motivate people to take charge of their health through proper diet and exercise. At times the audiences are full with people who are sincerely interested in changing their diets and improving their health.  The problem comes, however, in harnessing that initial interest  and taking it one step further to actually make it a reality.

How we eat as an adult may stem from a combination of how our parents fed us as a child, what our own experiences with foods are as an adult, and the temptations surrounding us via T.V., magazines, billboard ads, at stores, and how affected we are by the millions of fast food restaurants around that make eating on the run so convenient. In addition, some of us have emotional reasons for eating certain foods. ( Have you ever had a hard day and couldn't wait to get home and have a piece of candy or of a chocolate cake?)


Changing how we eat is hard! You might start out so intensely motivated that you eagerly throw out all the "junk" food at home and go out and purchase half a carload of "healthier" food. Two weeks later, you're sick of all that healthy food and would do somersaults to get your hands on some good 'ole "junk food." So the saga goes in homes all over the world. I have learned the hard way that without the right ATTITUDE, it is unlikely that any kind of diet change will succeed. While we need to be Smart about eating a healthy diet, we also need to be Savvy about our attitude -- right from the start. 

My goal on these pages is to try to explore ways to bring attitude and nutrition knowledge together to give us all a better way to succeed at making those healthy diet changes that could increase our lifespan. Diet changes that will not only last a lifetime, but that we can ENJOY along the way!!

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