Diet and Lifestyle Coaching

At Marengo Asia Hospitals, Diet and Lifestyle Coaching has become one of the approaches of mainstream treatments for a variety of health conditions, from diabetes and obesity to thyroid disorders and metabolic dysfunction. The treatment involves lifestyle changes, dietary counseling tailored for individual patients, and customized exercise recommendations based on appropriate and sound options backed by evidence.
The expert diabetologists/endocrinologists and dietitians from our team treat patients by attacking the root causes of these conditions and helping them get better health outcomes, avoid complications, and enjoy a good quality of life.

What Does Diet and Lifestyle Coaching Include?

Diet and Lifestyle Coaching at Marengo Asia Hospitals combines best practice techniques with personalized care to encourage better overall health. Nutrition, physical activity, behavioral modifications, and sustainable lifestyles are included to reflect the specific health requirements of an individual. The main areas are explained  below:

Personalized Dietary Guidance

Nutrition plays a fundamental role in maintaining one's health, particularly for individuals dealing with conditions like diabetes, obesity, and various metabolic disorders. Our dietary advice encompasses:

• Low-Carbohydrate Plans: These plans focus more on reducing sugars and simple carbohydrate intake while also promoting the usage of fiber-rich food such as vegetables, whole grains, and legumes. This has a stabilizing effect on the blood sugar level, improves sensitivity to insulin, and leads to weight loss. By customizing these plans according to each patient's requirements, we make sure they are effective and sustainable.
• Avoidance of Harmful Foods: The patient is advised on harmful dietary ingredients such as refined flour, reheated oils, palm oil, and other processed products. Such ingredients may intensify metabolic imbalances that are associated with inflammation, insulin resistance, and more. The exclusion of such foods promotes better metabolic function and a reduced risk of complications.
• Balanced Meal Planning: Balanced meal planning is an ideal approach to utilizing individually-created menus that place a rich emphasis on nutrient-dense foods, such as fresh vegetables, lean proteins (poultry, fish, and legumes), and healthy fats (nuts, seeds, and olive oil). These plans reduce processed and high-calorie foods in the diet, which thereby maintains hormonal balance, improves digestion, and ensures stable energy throughout the day.

Custom Exercise Programs

Exercise is an important part of managing and preventing many health disorders. At Marengo Asia Hospitals, our healthcare specialists are committed to developing individualized fitness plans that are designed to maximize benefits for each patient:

• Diverse and Targeted Routines: The activities include brisk walking, resistance training, push-ups, yoga, and cardiovascular exercises, thus accommodating different levels of fitness. These exercises help improve the processing of glucose, increase insulin sensitivity, and decrease excess fat, all of which help address metabolic disorders.
• Personalized Fitness Plans: Our healthcare specialists work with every patient to establish personalized fitness programs that complement health goals, like weight loss, muscle building, or improvement in metabolic health. Regular follow-ups ensure the program changes with each patient's progression and is practical and motivating to them throughout.

Weight Loss Strategies

Maintaining the right weight prevents and manages conditions such as diabetes and obesity. Our long-term health-based strategies for weight loss are:

• Supervised Weight Loss: Our programs are designed for safe and effective weight loss by directly targeting root causes such as hormonal imbalances or metabolic disorder. Under expert supervision, the concentration is on improved insulin sensitivity and reduced medication, preventing complications in weight-related health issues such as cardiovascular diseases and joint problems.
• Comprehensive and Individualized Plans: From dietary counseling and structured exercise programs to surgical interventions, when necessary, our weight loss approach manages all areas of the patient's condition for sustainable and meaningful outcomes.

Lifestyle Changes

Behavioral change and adherence to good habits are required to bring about long-term health improvement. Our program focuses on the following:

• Sustainable Habit Formation: The concept here is to aid in long-term habits, including meal planning, mindful eating, and regular exercise. The habits will be customized for every patient based on his/her lifestyle and preference so that they are easier to maintain.
• Stress Management and Sleep Hygiene: Unmanaged chronic stress, in addition to poor-quality sleep, can severely worsen metabolic disorders as well as overall health conditions. Our treatment approach will include stress management, which involves mindfulness and relaxation techniques in addition to sleep improvements. These changes cause less disruption both in the physical body and in the mind.
• Structured Daily Routines: Patients are helped to form daily structured routines that are based on eating well, exercising, drinking plenty of water, and resting. This helps them focus on reinforcing healthy habits and, in turn, makes it second nature.

Conditions Treated Through Diet and Lifestyle Coaching

Diet and Lifestyle Coaching at Marengo Asia Hospitals is designed to treat a range of health conditions, focusing on quality of life improvement and complication prevention.

Diabetes and Metabolic Disorders

Metabolic disorders, such as diabetes, are the most frequent conditions treated using lifestyle interventions. Our diabetologists play a pivotal role in managing these conditions through holistic care approaches. The conditions include:

• Type 1 Diabetes: Autoimmune illness where the pancreas fails to produce insulin.
• Type 2 Diabetes:  A condition when the body does not use the insulin effectively produced in the body.
• Fatty Liver Disease:  This condition is associated with metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance.
• Gestational Diabetes: A form of diabetes that occurs only at the time of pregnancy and ends after delivery.
• Post-Pancreatitis Diabetes: Diabetes due to chronic inflammation of the pancreas.
• Brittle Diabetes: Severe diabetes with very extreme fluctuations in blood sugar.
• Polycystic Ovary Disease (PCOD) and Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS): Hormonal conditions that are typically linked with erratic menstrual patterns, ovarian cysts, and metabolic complications like insulin resistance.

Our medical team also guides patients with other metabolic illnesses including genetic metabolic disorders and metabolic syndrome through dietary interventions, and exercise, among others.  We also focus on early detection and management of complications like diabetic neuropathy (nerve damage) and retinopathy (eye damage).

Obesity and Weight Management

Metabolic and endocrine disorders are common causes of chronic overweight or obesity. Diet counseling combined with exercise plans, as well as pharmacological support, enable us to help our patients:

• Identify and address underlying hormonal or metabolic causes of obesity.
• Achieve sustainable weight loss to improve overall health and reduce associated risks.
• Explore advanced options, including bariatric surgery if required.

Thyroid Disorders

The thyroid gland plays a critical role in regulating metabolism. Lifestyle interventions can greatly support management of common thyroid conditions, such as:

• Goitre: It occurs due to the increase in size of the thyroid gland.
• Graves’ Disease: An autoimmune disease that over stimulates the thyroid gland and causes hyperthyroidism.
• Primary Hypothyroidism: It is due to an underactive thyroid gland producing less hormone, thus TSH levels are high.
• Autoimmune Hypothyroidism: An underactive thyroid gland due to auto-antibodies like anti-TPO antibody, thus raising TSH levels.
• Central Hypothyroidism: This is an underactive thyroid gland due to deficiency of a hormone at the level of brain (pituitary gland)
• Thyroid Inflammation (Thyroiditis): Thyroiditis often gets activated by autoimmune or viral causes.

Sarcopenia

Sarcopenia can severely affect the quality of life. Personalized plans emphasize:

• Improvement in muscle health through specific exercise programs.
• Optimizing nutrition with a focus on protein consumption and overall balanced diets.

Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Fatty Liver Disease (MAFLD)

Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Fatty Liver Disease (MAFLD), previously known as non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, is closely linked to conditions such as obesity and type 2 diabetes. Early intervention is crucial to prevent its progression.
At Marengo Asia Hospitals, we take a patient-centric approach to managing MAFLD by using nutritional strategies that reduce liver fat and improve metabolic health. Furthermore, exercise programs are tailored to enhance liver function and support long-term lifestyle modifications. Our care is holistic and ensures that people can achieve better health outcomes and healthier lives.

Why Choose Marengo Asia Hospitals?

Marengo Asia Hospitals delivers specialized management under the proficient guidance of doctors, which ensures that patients are given the best standards of care that meet individual needs. The expert team of doctors, expert diabetologists/endocrinologists, nutritionists, diabetes educators, and allied healthcare professionals, ensures that the treatment provided is holistic and tailor-made for the individual. Here's why you should choose us for your care:

• Doctor-led expert care: Our healthcare team consists of highly-trained and experienced diabetologists/endocrinologists who specialize in dealing with diabetes and other metabolic disorders through a scientific and patient-centered approach. At Marengo Asia Hospitals, each patient receives treatment from reliable and highly skilled experts who understand the complexity of such conditions, delivering individual treatment in regard to both the urgency of their symptoms and considerations for long-term health..
• Expertly Tailored Personalized Programs: We recognize that each journey to health is unique. Our doctors collaborate with experienced dietitians and fitness professionals to develop your individualized care plans which are tailored to your needs, preferences, and goals. From managing diabetes, obesity, or other metabolic disorders, our treatment plans will be developed to ensure maximum health benefits for you.
• Holistic Approach Focused on Comprehensive Care: At Marengo Asia Hospitals, we take a holistic approach, treating not only the condition but the entire person. A holistic approach aims to improve quality of life in the management of diseases, more than just mere treatment of the disease or its symptoms. We provide emphasis on prevention, lifestyle, and patient education so that the individual is better enabled to take care of himself/herself.
• Advanced Interventions for Optimal Results: With the latest medical technologies in place, our hospital operates with advanced diagnostic tools and the best options in treatment. This ensures that the doctors on our team deliver you the most effective evidence-based interventions to actually get the best outcomes possible.