My Nutri Space: Add Fiber to Your Diet !!

Online Diet Consultations by Samia Khoury Diet Clinic

Hi Everybody !!!

I am happy to be your dietitian, helping you get rid of your excess weight, alleviating diabetes problems, putting your blood exams under control, and helping you work on the mental side of dieting

ONLINE DIET CONSULTATIONS AVAILABLE:

I provide my services at my clinic in Beirut, Lebanon or online in 5 different languages: English, Arabic, French, Portuguese & Spanish.
So whether you live in Lebanon or abroad, contact me at samia.khoury@gmail.com to know how to set up a session.

I can help you achieve all your health and weight loss goals now! Check some success stories here and get motivated to start a diet with me whenever you like, wherever you live!

Samia Khoury Dietitian

Saturday, August 6, 2011

Add Fiber to Your Diet !!

Let me introduce you to Fiber. Fiber is my best friend. Fiber helps me lose weight, and makes me feel full for longer. Fiber decreases the absorption of fat and sugar in the blood, which means some fiber may help lower blood cholesterol levels and help to control the rise of blood sugar levels after a meal. Fiber helps with constipation problems and prevents from colon and rectal cancer as well as from hemorrhoids! Fiber prevents bloating and gas too!!

There are so many reasons why fiber should also be YOUR best friend!

In general where can you find sources of fiber?

- In leafy vegetables and legumes

- In fruits especially with the skin

- In whole wheat bread, toast, rice, pasta, couscous, burghul

- In beans, lentils and peas, oats, pop corn, potato with skin

You need 25g of fiber daily if you are a woman and 38g daily if you are man. This is easily reached if you consume whole wheat foods instead of refined (white bread etc…), eat salads and 3 portions of fruits daily, and beans or lentils twice a week! Also choose to eat potato with the skin, choose homemade popcorn as snack instead of chips, use oat in your breakfast meals with milk and you’ll be doing good!

Just careful because too much fiber (more than 50 or 60 grams per day) may cause diarrhea and bloating and can actually lower your body’s absorption of vitamins and minerals and be sure to increase your fiber intake gradually, and drink a lot of water for the fiber to be efficient !!

It is important to read well your food labels at the supermarket because it will help you determine the fiber content of most packaged foods. When it is written high in fiber then the product has 5 grams or more per serving!

Now I am happy to have a mutual friend with you! ;)

Keep Healthy…

Samia Khoury Dietitian

www.samiakhoury.com

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About Me

• Born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Lived there for 14 years

• French Educated (Lycee Moliere, Brazil and Lycee Nahr Ibrahim, Lebanon)

• Studied Nutrition & Dietetics in American University of Beirut (AUB)

• Fluently speaks Portuguese, Spanish, French, English & Arabic

• Member of the Lebanese Dietetic Association

• Worked at the department of Nutrition and Health for development at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva in 2005 on school nutrition programs

• Participated in the World Health Assembly in May 2005 at the Palais of the United Nations in Geneva

• Worked at the Standing Committee on Nutrition (SCN) in Geneva, 2005

• Constantly attends worldwide congresses and seminars − examples include the world public health nutrition congress in Barcelona, Spain and the Micronutrient Forum in Istanbul, Turkey

Personal interests: Spirituality, Traveling and Interacting with People from Different Cultures, Changing People's Lifestyles
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About My Clinic

Services available at Samia Khoury Diet Clinic:

1. Weight loss program (Diet) — look thinner, be healthier, control diabetes, hypertension, cholesterol, triglycerides, anemia and much more. Let’s make your goal a reality by losing weight the safe way!

2. Japanese CO2 foot bath — unique and effective foot therapy from Mitsubishi that helps heal people with diabetes from foot pains and ulcers and helps prevent amputation. It also improves the patient’s walking distance and sensations in the feet and toes by bringing back circulation of the blood to the small arteries and nerves of the feet and hands. Smokers, people in dialysis and the elderly will also benefit from.

3. Relaxation Massages — relief of stress and body pain. Massages can help by:

* Relieving stress and promoting an overall feeling of relaxation which helps you move more easily

* Alleviating pain and tension

* Decreasing inflammation

* Improving blood circulation as well as high blood pressure

* Improving and strengthening the immune system

* Relieving musculo-skeletal problems and improves posture

* Relieving pregnancy discomforts

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My Role as a Dietitian in your Health Care is:

To work individually with you to assess your nutrition needs (review your medical and diet history, blood tests, weight and weight history, along with other physical measurements). My role is also to help you establish realistic goals in a certain period of time, as well as to design a personalized meal plan depending on your situation. Whether you want to lose weight, control diabetes, cholesterol etc...Whether you are an adult, a teenager or even a child, man or woman, I will be providing you with ongoing encouragement and support to help you reach your goals and live a healthy lifestyle

Motivating Quotes

"Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart” (The Bible, Psalm 37: 4)
Better to have a big goal and reach half of it than to have no goal and reach all of it (Joyce Meyer)
We are what we think. Negative thinking causes loss of energy that is transformed into illness. Good humor, laughter, leisure, joy, replenish health and bring long life
Nobody has a perfect life, and it's entirely possible that if you want someone else's life, they are busy wanting someone else's too–maybe even yours. So enjoy what you have, who you are, and what you do! (Joyce Meyer)
God will help you be all you can be, but He will never let you be successful at becoming someone else (Joyce Meyer)

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