PEOPLE ARE
TALKING ABOUT QUINTESSENCIA

"I engaged Quintessencia personal chef services to help me lose weight and attain a better lifestyle. Patricia's cooking is not only delicious, but healthy as well. Her food was so tasty, I never felt like I was on a diet!"

– Christine Capulong, New York, NY

HEALTH AND NUTRITION COUNSELING

The Practical, Individualized Way to Health

Want to slim down while controlling hunger? Have more energy? Look and feel better? The answer is simple. Eat right.

But with the pace of your life today, you are busy. Your schedule makes losing weight and finding healthy food options seem challenging, particularly if you eat out a lot. Too often, good nutrition takes a back seat to convenience.

With expertise gained at the Integrative Nutrition Institute in New York, Quintessencia professionals can help you address these challenges. To promote better health, and help you address any issues you may face, we can customize a nutritional plan that includes specific, actionable steps and delicious food choices that suit your life style. Whether you want to enhance sports performance, lift your mood, protect your heart, improve digestion, or give your hair and skin a healthy glow, our health and nutritional programs are your foundation for positive change.

No matter what your age or lifestyle, we can help you look and feel your best. With in-depth, one-on-one sessions, we develop a unique, personalized program that includes health and nutrition counseling, the proper supplementation, and if you select our private chef services, delicious food based on menus designed especially for you.

Not a "Diet"

Most "diets" are trends. Rather than prescribe the "hot" diet of the day, we look at you as a whole – your life style, needs, goals and preferences – and develop a customized program that is as unique as you are. With personalized programs designed especially for you, we can help you make healthy eating part of your lifestyle.

Health and Nutrition Programs to Meet Your Needs

Overwhelming research has shown that a diet with the proper number of calories, the right proportions of fat, and high in fiber – fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and legumes – can be helpful in achieving optimal weight and reduce the risk of some cancers, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and other diseases. However, many of us still have trouble eating right.

To help you address your unique situation, we have developed some specific programs targeted at the most common health and nutrition challenges:

• Energy Program –  Increase your energy and vitality. Reduce stress. Improve your sleep. The totally personalized Energy Program can help you lead a better, less tiring, less stressful life. Combining custom health and nutrition counseling with spa treatments, yoga classes, and other techniques as appropriate, the Energy Program can improve your state of mind, improve your concentration, and enhance your well-being.
• Weight Management Program –  The completely individualized Weight Management Program can help you achieve your ideal weight. In combination with exercise and beauty programs, the Weight Management Program can help you shed unwanted pounds and improve your health. Rather than imposing a specific regimen like the South Beach, Atkins, or Zone diets, we develop a set of customized recommendations that will teach you an entirely new way to eat. We provide a realistic, step-by-step guide to healthy eating and lifestyle changes with an emphasis on self-management and long-term results.
• Kids Program – Children are our future and will take charge of our world tomorrow. The Kids Program focuses on the well-being of our youth, teaching them how to love all kinds of food and weaning them off junk food and sugars. Our Kids Program helps your children learn healthy eating habits that can help lower cholesterol and blood pressure, reduce heart disease risk, and decrease the potential for unnecessary weight gain. After our Kids Program, your children will shun sugary sodas, fatty snacks, and processed foods and actually ask for fresh fruits and vegetables.
• Performer Program –  The Performer Program offers dancers, actors, singers, and other performing arts professionals health and nutritional counseling to help ensure peak performance and increase creativity. With physical therapy, a personalized program of muscle strengthening though Pilates or other desired techniques, and customized health and nutrition advice, the Performer Program can help you boost your stamina, increase your energy, and be your best.
• Women’s Program –  Because women face special health and nutrition issues, they need special care. Combining personalized health and nutrition counseling with other services, including spas, massages, osteopathic treatments, cognitive therapy, Pilates, aromatherapy, and special supplementation, this unique program restores hormonal balance and vital energy.

No matter what your lifestyle or health or nutritional challenges, we can develop a practical, individualized plan to help you achieve and maintain your goals.