Nutrition Services

 

At The Woodlands Institute for Health & Wellness, you are not a patient, rather you are part of a team.

Dr. McManus and her staff are passionate about offering the finest personal attention and medical care to their patients. They spend ample time with each patient in order to understand the causes of their symptoms and educate them about the solutions. It might be unusual for a patient to spend a large amount of time exploring symptoms with a doctor, but this is the standard practice at The Woodlands Institute for Health & Wellness.        

Nutritional Services

 Our Nutritional Services at The Woodlands Institute for Health and Wellness are designed to help you accomplish two things:

• Provide good quality nutrient dense food to all the cells in your body and,
• Make the necessary lifestyle changes to establish optimal health for life.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A La Carte Nutritional Services  ($65/hour)

Transitions 
This is a one-hour nutritional consultation for patients who have completed the 28-day, Yeast Free Detox diet and want to transition successfully into a healthy diet for life by reincorporating ideal foods and limiting or avoiding damaging foods.

Allergy Response
This one hour nutritional consultation is designed to help patients with food allergies and/or sensitivities to eliminate them from the diet while finding non-allergenic substitutions, resources and ideas to enhance food enjoyment.

Lifestyle Nutrition
This program offers a large variety of modules from which to choose based on need and interest. Each module lasts one hour.  Modules can be purchased in advance at a reduced rate in groups of 3 or 6.  This makes a perfect gift, too! For those wanting to become more educated on all aspects of nutrition and work on lasting, long-term lifestyle changes, this is the perfect program.  Whether you want one module or many modules, meeting with a degreed nutritionist can help with accountability and help keep you on track while practicing new habits and developing a new lifestyle.  Those who have participated in this program have found it most helpful to meet once or twice a month until confidence is established and new habits become routine.  Modules include:

• Building your Food Pyramid – This module covers the fundamental concepts of good nutrition and identification of ideal foods for a healthy, nutrient dense diet for a lifetime.  Get help busting common marketplace myths about foods like grains, soy, eggs, butter and Splenda.  (Recommended as a baseline for everyone interested in Lifestyle Nutrition Program)

• Making the Lifestyle Change – This module addresses potential obstacles and social/emotional aspects of changing eating habits and offers ideas and suggestions for planning, coping, and making permanent, lifestyle changes. 

• Good Carbs, Bad Carbs Basics– This module brings clarity to what foods are included in the carbohydrate food group, understanding which carbs are highly nutritious and essential to the diet and which ones are actually harmful to good health and why.

• Good Carbs, Bad Carbs Next Steps – This module explains the metabolic impact the bad carbohydrates have on the body and why this leads to diseases such as addiction, obesity, diabetes and heart disease.

• Fundamental Shopper’s Guide – This module offers recommendations for the most nutrient dense, healthful foods, and what to look for in the grocery store.  Ingredient list label reading, Nutrition Label reading and marketing techniques that can throw you off and make you think you are getting something healthy.

• Fundamental Shopper’s Guide II – This module takes the information from the previous module and takes it to the grocery store for a 2 hour shopping trip to practice making wise choices. (2 hour minimum)

• What’s in our Food – This module provides information on the most concerning additives in our food, the effect they have on health, and strategies for avoiding them.

• Strategies for Maintaining a Healthy Weight – This module offers practical guidelines and strategies for planning and living to maintain a healthy weight.

• Obstacles to Weight Loss – This Module explain 7 different obstacles to weight loss to help develop an effective strategy for long term, permanent weight loss.

• Healthy Foods for a Healthy Family – This module identifies a healthy diet for children 2 yrs – 18 years and describes how their needs differ from those of the adult.  Included are healthy and nutritious snack and lunchbox ideas for growing kids.

• Healthy Habits for a Healthy Family – This module identifies wise strategies for raising children with good nutritional habits.  Provides tips, ideas and recommendations for teaching your children to eat and try new foods, make wise choices and get involved in the meal preparation process.

• Nutritional Approaches for Preventing Heart Disease – This module explains the pH balance of the body and emphasizes nutritional approaches that reduce inflammation and congestion and promote healing and optimal function of our cellular structure.  Foods that promote inflammation and congestion are identified as well as those that have anti-inflammatory and healing properties.

• Social and Emotional Issues of Food – This module allows the opportunity to unravel the social, emotional, relational complexities of changing eating lifestyle.  Strategies for talking about your lifestyle changes with family and friends, as well as how to deal with specific challenges such as holidays, family traditions, loneliness, vacations, and celebrations, provide coping strategies that work with busy lives while still eating healthfully.

Custom Nutrition
This nutritional consultation is custom designed to meet the exact needs and requests of the patient.  Length is determined by need based on the request. 

Nutritional services included with some of our programs

Comprehensive Wellness Program includes a 3.5-hour nutritional consultation held at a grocery store and includes education and preparation for the 28 day yeast free diet and shopping for helpful acceptable food choices during the diet.

HCG Weight Loss Program includes a 1 hour nutritional consultation describing the components to maintaining a healthy weight for life and access to the weekly HCG support group to discuss challenges, successes, and new approaches for changing your nutritional lifestyle.

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In Regards to Insurance

Because we are committed to enabling our patients to obtain and maintain health and wellness naturally, and the services provided by us are based upon a natural and preventative approach, it is rare that they are covered by insurance companies. Once your claim for your initial visit is submitted, if records are requested (which occurs about 70% of the time), it will likely be denied by your insurance company as “not medically necessary”. Because of unsuccessful past experiences in attempting to assist patients with their appeals, we are unable to provide any additional assistance beyond submitting medical records. If, by chance, your claim is processed without review, the most that is usually paid is about 40% of the entire wellness evaluation.  You may submit receipts for your medications to your insurance company, and may be reimbursed for them.  Many plans will count the evaluation costs towards your deductible. 

Please know that if you are eligible for Medicare, Medicaid or Champus, you must sign a waiver. This waiver is required by these government agencies and states that you understand that you are waiving your rights to file your claim to, and seek reimbursement from, Medicare, Medicaid or Champus or any insurance coverage secondary to any of those.

In all cases, we appreciate and expect payment in full for our services at the time they are rendered, and in return, we pledge to provide you with exceptional attention and medical care as we place you on a life-long path of health and wellness.

 

PAYMENT OPTIONS:  Cash, check, Mastercard, Visa, American Express, Discover, and Care Credit.