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Take-Home Tips for Addressing Healthy Eating with Your Patients

To help patients achieve their nutrition and health goals and empower them to feel their best, functional medicine health coach Christine Arnholt, NBC-HWC, FMCHC, provides ten take-home tips that simplify the basics of nutrition and encourage better food choices. In what she calls "Chris's 10 Healthy Eating-Happy YOU Power Principles,” Arnholt lists:

1. Real Food. Eat a variety of good, quality, clean, mostly whole, unprocessed, organic. For more information on clean food and affordable options, reference the Environmental Working Group’s Dirty Dozen and Clean 15 foods.

2. Preferably Homemade. Homemade is good because you know what you’re eating; there are no “hidden” ingredients. If you do eat out, stick to the Power Principles as best possible.

3. Combos Matter. A strategic combination of quality macros (“PFCs”—proteins, fats, carbs) and micros (“MVPs”—minerals, vitamins, phytonutrients) support optimal digestion and satiety.

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