Health Counseling and weight management through Integrative Nutrition Approach. We Server Northern New Jersey and New York City

Mission
Our mission is to play a crucial role in improving health and happiness in America, and through that process, create a ripple effect that transforms the world.

Health Counseling is a unique, exciting innovation in health and nutrition. As a Health Counselor, I have studied all the major dietary theories and will help you discover what approach works best for you at this point in your life. While most dietitians dwell on calories, carbohydrates, fats, proteins, restrictions and lists of good and bad foods, I work with my clients to create a happy, healthy life in a way that is flexible, fun and free of denial and discipline. No one diet works for everyone. I will guide you to find the food and lifestyle choices that best support you. I will also help you to make gradual, lifelong changes that enable you to reach your current and future health goals.

Getting Started

When was the last time you talked with someone about your health and received the personal attention you deserve? It’s rare for anyone to get an hour to work on their nutrition and goals with a trained professional. As a health counselor, I am here to create a supportive environment while we explore what really works for you.

Could one conversation change your life?

Find out by scheduling a free consultation with me.

We will discuss your unique situation in depth and determine how I can help you reach your personal goals.

At Get Fit With Nick, We Combine Physical Activity, Career, Relationships, and Spirituality with Food.

The Stay Fit Approach is an Holistic Approach

I practice a holistic approach to nutrition, which means that I look at how all areas of your life are connected. Does stress at your job or in your relationship cause you to overeat? Does lack of sleep or low energy prevent you from exercising? As we work together, we look at how all parts of your life affect the whole.

No one diet works for everyone
The concept of bio-individuality is that each person has their own nutritional needs. So, when the experts say, “dairy is good for you” or “fat is unhealthy,” it’s too much of a generalization. One person’s food is another person’s poison, and that’s why fad diets don’t work in the long run. I look at your age, health, activity level, blood type, metabolic rate and personal preferences to determine your dietary needs.

Everything is food
Healthy relationships, a fulfilling career, regular physical activity and a spiritual practice are essential forms of nourishment. When these “primary foods” are balanced, what you eat becomes secondary.

Integrative Nutrition Pyramid
The Integrative Nutrition pyramid depicts a balanced approach to nutrition: more high-quality, organic vegetables, fruits, complex carbohydrates, protein and water; less meat, milk, sugar and artificial food. The pyramid is surrounded with the primary food circle, the parts of life that satisfy our hunger for living and create a balanced life.

Your personalized program will radically improve your health and happiness. Together, we will explore concerns specific to you and your body and discover the tools you need for a lifetime of balance.

Food changes everything. As your daily diet changes, your body changes and your happiness improves. Imagine what your life would be like if you had clear thinking, energy and excitement every day.

During our free initial consultation we will discuss your unique situation in depth and determine how I can help you reach your personal goals.

I'd love to hear from you.
If you're interested in finding out more about health counseling or scheduling a free consultation, just use the email link below to send me your contact details, and I will follow up within two to three business days to schedule a telephone interview.

Our preferred approach is not to use Meal Plans; we equate them with diets. If However, you're more comfortable using a meal plan, We can accommodate you too.

Dear Mr. Obama;

In re the overhaul of the health care system, I've heard in the media that preventive medicine will be a part of your overhaul package of our health care system, which I frankly call sick care system. In the past when the topic of preventive medicine was introduced it meant coverage for an annual physical. In my mind that is too late. Americans have the poorest diets in the world though the Diet Industry is a $40B annual industry, and Americans get the least amount of daily exercise of anyone in the industrialized world, and probably the entire world.

I am a personal trainer certified by top national agencies, and a health counselor certified by the State University of NY at Purchase, and am board certified by the American Association of Drugless practitioners. During the course of my work, I meet so many people who are so de-conditioned that I don't need equipment to train them [the subjects can't get out of a chair without help,] and whose diets are so poor that making one or two minor changes makes a huge difference in weight, energy levels, mental well being, and overall health. Sadly, most people don't know what to do; the media has gotten them to believe that high fructose corn syrup is good for you because it comes from corn.

I'm going to be 60 in July, and haven't felt better. After many years in the IT industry, I left the field to make what was an avocation a vocation. I suffered many a good natured [at least I think so] chiding by colleagues when they saw what food I regularly ate. Although early intervention with disease is helpful and made more likely by a comprehensive annual physical, we need to keep people from getting sick in the first place. I heard an interview of a representative of the Insurance Industry on WNYC in New York recently who said that 50% of health costs are due to lifestyle related issues. 50%, that's a big number! Another 20% of the health care costs were due to duplicate and/or over/unnecessary testing by physicians. Add the two together, that's up to a whopping 70% of our health care costs. I was at a lecture just this weekend where I heard that diet can "turn off" genetic proclivities over time; so much for being "genetically doomed." Work in this area was started over 50 years ago in 1953 by a Barbara M^cClintock whose work was initially ignored by the medical profession until 1983 when she won a Nobel prize. It took the AMA 30 years to come around.

It's clear that the medical profession is not in the business of nutrition; many get none or what they get of nutrition education in medical school is woefully inadequate. The only way to improve the health of Americans and reduce health care costs is

How do we keep people from that first bad annual physical? I don't see moving the food industry or FDA anytime soon unless the vast majority of people stop buying what they're producing, but we can stop or drastically reduce the subsidies; and to blazes with the representatives from the farm states, that bucolic image of the family farm is a figment of some marketer's imagination foisted on the American public. These two suggestions I suspect will take some time, but what we do right now is invest in lifestyle change.

Oftentimes, I come across folks who want a personal trainer or who want and need health counseling, but can't afford it. My answer to that dilemma is to license exercise trainers and health counselors; this can be done at the state level much the same way doctors and other professions are. Once licensed, it will make it more likely that those folks who can't afford the help from people like me will have their expenses covered by insurance or at the very least paid for out of Health Care Spending Accounts. For those who can afford it and don't see the value in it, HCSA payments will eliminate at least one obstacle to getting more active and eating more healthfully. Please, do what you can to incorporate these ideas into your plans.