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March 2018 Newsletter

March 8, 2018 by ibwellspring

How Your Diet Impacts Wellness

Whether you like it or not, what you eat has a major effect on your overall wellness. Consuming too much or too little of certain foods can be linked to developing health conditions later in life just as well as having an immediate effect on your moods and your brain function.

While many of us continually attempt to improve our overall health by exercising to lose weight and drinking more water, we also need to pay attention to the immediate and long-term effect food has on our overall health – including how we feel, how we act, and so on.

To achieve optimal wellness, it’s time to think beyond just hitting the gym and focus on the nutritional and fundamental value of foods within your diet.

We provide family and individual services for adults, adolescents, children, and families. Contact us at Wellspring Behavioral Health today to learn more about our services.

Expanding Waistline, Shrinking Brain?

We motivate ourselves to lose weight for many reasons: to look better, feel better, and to be healthier…but have you ever heard of someone working to lose weight to improve their memory?

In the last few decades, rates of obesity and health conditions such as Type 2 Diabetes have skyrocketed in the United States. We know that obesity is linked with a host of negative health outcomes and research shows that childhood obesity negatively affects cognition.

 Obesity Appears to Compromise Cognition in Adults as Well as Children 

Stress and Diet: Can Certain Foods Affect Your Mood?

Did you know? It’s not just your mind that experiences the symptoms of stress – your gut can feel it, too!

In the setting of chronic stress, health conditions (like Irritable Bowel Syndrome) are acting as key links between diet and the brain, revealing additional health side effects that stress can cause.

How Stress + Diet Work to Affect Your Mood 

Wellspring Behavioral Health Cares

Dr. McNeely’s viewpoint and practice is integrative, combining developmental, cognitive-behavioral, existential and other perspectives to develop a holistic approach, broadening insight and opportunities for effective intervention.

Abigail regularly works with clients dealing with a broad range of issues including: depression, bipolar depression, anxiety, life challenges and chronic illness. She offers individual, couples and family counseling for adults and teens, as well as academic, employment and medical needs psychology assessments.

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