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Dishing Up Nutrition

Understanding Lab Numbers

Dishing Up Nutrition

Nutritional Weight & Wellness, Inc.

Nutrition, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education, Health & Fitness:nutrition

4818 Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we tackle a dietitian’s wish list when it comes to getting your labs drawn! Registered and licensed dietitians Leah and Teresa go over common annual lab tests, what the numbers mean, and where you want them to be for optimal health. They cover tests like blood sugar, vitamin D, cholesterol, thyroid, and iron. Sign into your myChart or health portal to follow along or bookmark this episode for the next time you get your results back!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition, brought to you by nutritional weight and wellness.

0:14.3

We are a Minnesota company that specializes in real food, nutrition, education, and counseling.

0:20.9

At the time when this podcast airs, we'll be celebrating Thanksgiving in a few days,

0:26.1

I wanted to take a moment of gratitude and to thank all of our clients and all of you

0:31.6

listeners out there for your dedication to real food for real health over the last year.

0:38.1

Whether you are one of Dar's original clients in the old St. Paul office, or this is your

0:43.7

first episode of listening to Dishing Up Nutrition, please know that you are a vital and

0:49.6

appreciated part of the NWW family.

0:53.1

Thank you for trusting in us and trusting in the real food message

0:57.1

that we strive to put out every single week. Yes, Leah, I share your sentiment. It is a great time

1:03.0

of year to take an extra moment to think about some of the things we may take for granted in our

1:07.9

everyday lives. One of those things for me is how grateful I am to have

1:12.8

the privilege of sharing this real food message with all of you. In the spirit of gratitude and taking

1:19.9

time to reflect, I would like to pose a few questions to those of you listening. How has real food

1:27.0

impacted your health over the last year? Do you look at food

1:31.5

differently now this year than you did maybe before? What kinds of successes have you seen from

1:39.0

changing your food choices? Does your memory work better? Do your knees or your back or your hips give you less

1:46.7

trouble? Are your hair and nails growing thicker and stronger? Are you no longer having diarrhea

1:52.4

four times a day and or reflux every single night? Do you have effortless energy to get through

2:00.1

your workday now?

2:01.2

Are you able to avoid the afternoon crash or avoid falling asleep on the couch at 7 p.m?

2:08.0

Besides the weight on the scale, there are so many ways to measure health.

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