Lisa Nelson
RD, LN
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Heart Health and Weight Loss Expert
Lisa Nelson Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Heart Health (Lower Cholesterol, Control High Blood Pressure) and Weight Loss
- Career Focus
- Heart Health and Weight Loss Coaching
- Affiliation
- eNutritio Services, Real Living Nutrition Services, American Dietetic Association, Montana Dietetic Association
Unfortunately, I've been blessed with crummy genetics. That's right, a strong family history of heart disease and a cholesterol level that has hovered around 200 since my early twenties. I have a grandmother that died from a heart attack at age 69, a grandfather that died of a heart attack a year before I was born, a diabetic grandfather that recently didn't recover from quadruple by-pass surgery, and my remaining grandmother lives with diabetes.
Now, I'd be a fool not to recognize this could easily be the future I face, but it doesn't have to be. I can eat right and exercise like all the experts say and I can prevent or delay the onset of heart disease.
I ended up going one step further and became an expert myself. I received a double bachelor in Nutrition and Exercise Science and went on to get my registration as a dietitian. After 5 years of ongoing education, I finally started working one-on-one with clients dealing with the same conditions as my grandparents. It felt great seeing people improve their heart health through eating right and physical activity and know they'll enjoy time with their family for years to come. I want you to be part of your children's and grandchildren's lives!
I've been a practicing dietitian for over 9 years and started a private practice – eNutritio
Services – June of 2007. Since then, I've reached a much larger audience and I'm helping many more people achieve heart health and a new outlook on life! I'm ready to help you!
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3 Heart Healthy Minerals to Lower Blood Pressure
1. Reduce your SODIUM intake. Too much sodium in your diet can contribute to hypertension and make your blood pressure treatment less effective. Simply reducing your sodium intake to 2.3 grams (6 g table salt) daily can decrease your blood pressure. The average American consumes 6-18 grams of table salt daily (about 3 teaspoons). The body only needs 200 mg daily. That is 30 times less than what American's typically consume. To be heart healthy, sodium intake should be reduced to less than 2300 mg (1 teaspoon) daily. Quick tips to cut back on sodium:
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How to Obtain a Quality Testimonial
Social proof is an effective way to move a potential client into a paying client. How to provide social proof? The easiest way is to ‘pepper’ your website and sales page with testimonials. However, not just any testimonial format is effective. Untrustworthy service professionals could just make up whatever they want and slap it on a website. You want your testimonials to be authentic. Here are 5 ‘ingredients’ you want to obtain for an ideal testimonial: - Quote in clients own words.
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Eating Right on a Budget for Heart Health
Here are some 5 tips to eat right on a budget: 1. Skip the meat! Eat vegetarian meals more often. Select beans, peanut butter, and eggs as your protein source. This will cause less of a drain on your pocketbook and a great choice to promote heart health! 2. Reduce portion sizes. Reduce your meat serving size to save. A serving of meat is 3 ounce (picture a deck of cards). For heart health begin to use meat as a "side" and fill your plate with a variety of heart healthy vegetables. 3. Select “in-season” fruits and vegetables!
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Lower Cholesterol with Effortless Exercise - Part 2
You want to be more physically active, but how do you find the time? And just how much activity do you have to do? In Part 1, we identified ‘time’ as the number one reason most people are not more active. Did you implement any of the tips for getting more activity into your home and work routine? Here are examples of how to boost your fitness when traveling, caring for children, and running errands. On the Road
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Fruits and Vegetables for Winter Time Nutrition
Fruits and vegetables are rich in nutrients you need to promote heart health, such as vitami C, potassium, magnesium, folate, fiber, and even calcium. However, winter can often make eating vegetables daily more difficult. Here are several great choices you can access easily during the winter months. Artichokes Select artichokes heavy for their size with tightly closed buds. Leaf color should be green or purple without wilting or drying. Store artichokes by trimming the step and placing stem-down in water. Will keep in refrigerator for 2-3 days. Broccoli
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Article Marketing for Consistent Website Traffic
What is Article Marketing? Article marketing is when you take an article you’ve written and post it in article directories that syndicate your content. This can be very beneficial for a variety of reasons: - Some article directories may have a higher google page rank than your website. This means when someone is searching for information on a topic your article on the article directory may be more likely to show up in the google search results than the article on your blog. Either way, you have a new potential client reading your content.
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Do you have a content marketing strategy?
Do you have a content marketing strategy? You must have a strategy that will take you from where your business is currently to your goal. If you do not outline a strategy you are randomly throwing out content without purpose. This can be a waste of time and money. Not to mention the frustration of spinning your wheels and not seeing your business move forward. What is your goal? The first step is to identify your goal. Why are you marketing? What specific action do you want people to take when they see your message?
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How to Find a Virtual Assistant
If you are a health professional, it’s unlikely your strengths include web code, setting up teleconferences, and putting together virtual programs. As you expand your practice virtually you may find yourself spending countless hours trying to figure out tasks someone else could do in half the time or less. You may need to step back and ask – Do you want to spend hours trying to learn a new computer related task or would your time be better spent working with clients (and generating income)?
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Omega 3's - Top 5 Sources To Lower Cholesterol
If you’ve been following along, you know from the article "Get a Grip on Fatty Acids" that the right ratio of omega 6 to omega 3 fatty acids promotes lower cholesterol. The goal is not to cut omega 6 fatty acids (such as corn oil, beef, and chicken) completely from the diet, but to achieve a ratio of 4:1 or 1:1 omega 6 to omega 3. In order to attain this ratio you need to increase your omega 3 intake. Your options for doing this: 1. Eat fish at least twice a week.
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Dementia and High Blood Pressure
Dementia impacts all areas of your life, from medical to social to economic. Dementia impacts you, your family, and those around you. Increased attention and resources have been directed towards understanding the causes of dementia and possible treatments. There is evidence linking high blood pressure with dementia. The connection between dementia and hypertension appears to be directly related to blood pressure levels. Study #1
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7 Steps to Lower Blood Pressure
Here are 7 steps you can take this month to get started on the right path to lower blood pressure and heart health. 1. Lose weight and/or maintain a healthy weight Maintaining a healthy weight or losing weight will lower your blood pressure and make any medication you take to treat high blood pressure more effective. One of the easiest ways to evaluate your weight is by calculating your body mass index (BMI). 2. Increase your physical activity
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Does your website need a favicon?
Here's a short and simple tip to 'top' off your webpage appearance -- add a favicon. What is a Favicon? Well, those tiny little images in the top left corner of this post are favicons. You can customize the miniature icon next to your bookmarked web site and in the address bar next to your web page url to be your own customized logo. When people scroll through there bookmarked pages your site will more easily stand out as they visually recognize your logo. Including a favicon also gives you a more professional web appearance.
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Lisa Nelson
Think Long Term
I recommend moving away from the “diet” mindset. The term diet implies a short term plan. If you want long term success you need to make permanent changes.
Don't Tackle Too Much
Evaluate your current food and activity choices and implement small changes that you can stick with. Make no more than 2-3 changes at one time. Changing habits is hard and if you try to make drastic changes all at once, you set yourself up for failure!
Contacting Lisa Nelson
How to get started
I invite you to subscribe to The Heart of Health ezine. Through regular correspondence you'll get to know me and the programs I offer. I publish The Heart of Health ezine bi-weekly. You'll receive heart health and weight loss tips, along with my subscriber exclusive report: Stop Wasting Money - Take Control of Your Health.
I look forward to learning your biggest heart health and weight loss struggle and helping you overcome it!
Other highlights
What Your Doctor May Not Reveal About How to Be Heart Healthy
Master the Basics to Lower Blood Pressure and Cholesterol for a Longer, Healthier Life
Easy to understand, practical take action guide and workbook that takes you step by step to lower cholesterol and blood pressure naturally and includes all of the above programs, plus additional bonuses.
If you're newly diagnosed with high cholesterol and/or blood pressure and don't know the next step, want to prevent heart disease, tired of searching for the answers, and want everything you need to know in one convenient easy to follow guide then this is the program for you!
Balance Program (Weight Loss)
8 Step Program to Looking and Feeling Your Best!
Achieve your weight loss goals with help from your own personal dietitian. Learn the tools you will need to lose weight the healthy way and keep it off for a lifetime, all from the comfort of your own home.
Everyone has different eating habits, which is why you receive a customized program to help you focus on balancing your diet and lifestyle to achieve lasting weight loss.