Importance of a Healthy Diet

A healthy diet is crucial for your overall health and well-being. Curating a healthy diet can help prevent chronic diseases, maintain a healthy weight, boost your immune system, and improve your mental health.

Disease Prevention:

Having a healthy diet reduces the risk of chronic diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. It does this by helping you manage your cholesterol, blood pressure, and blood sugar levels.

Weight Management:

When you have a healthy diet, you are providing your body with adequate nutrients which allows you to maintain a healthy weight.

Boosted Immune System:

A balanced diet gives your body a consistent intake of vitamins and minerals that strengthen your body's defense system against infections.

Improved Mental Health:

Improving your diet can positively impact your mental health. A good diet provides you with the necessary nutrients needed to function optimally, which directly impacts your mood.

At New York Health, we offer a Patient Health & Wellness Program that is designed to focus on providing our patients with tools to better their mental, nutritional and physical health.

This program began as a platform for educating and coaching our patients on weight, dietary and supplement management. The program soon expanded into the mental health and well-being of patients as well as their loved ones with the addition of certified psychologists and licensed clinical social workers. 

We have supportive resources for our patients including:

  • Psychology

  • Nutrition

  • Social Work

  • Chronic Care Management

  • Physical Therapy

  • Occupational Therapy

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