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Nutrition and Weight Management
Realistic guidance on eating well and reaching a healthier weight, using foods you already know.
Understanding nutrition and weight management
Eating well does not mean giving up the foods you grew up with. Many familiar Nigerian meals can be adjusted in portion, preparation and balance. Weight is influenced by food, activity, sleep, stress, hormones, medicines and genetics, so lasting change comes from steady, personal steps and not from extreme diets.
What people often come to us about
- Wanting to lose or gain weight in a healthy way
- Confusion about what to eat
- Eating patterns that do not fit your work or family routine
- Wanting to eat better for a health condition
How we may support you
- Reviewing what, when and why you eat
- Ordering laboratory tests where they are needed, and reviewing results you already have
- Practical changes using local, affordable foods
- Setting realistic goals and reviewing them with you
- Looking at sleep, stress and activity alongside food
- Follow-up so that changes are sustainable
When we refer you
We build your plan around your life, your food and your goals, and we use tests where they help. If you have a medical condition or take a prescribed medicine, tell us at your consultation, and do not stop or change a prescribed medicine on your own. We do not recommend crash or extreme diets.
- Unexplained weight loss or weight gain
- Restricting food, purging, or feeling that eating is out of control. Please speak to a doctor or mental health professional
- Dizziness, fainting or palpitations when eating very little
- Swelling of the legs with breathlessness
This page is educational and is not individual medical advice. Results vary from person to person and cannot be guaranteed. Naturopathic care supports, and does not replace, necessary conventional medical treatment.