In recent decades, conventional diets have tended to be replaced by counseling sessions with health professionals and dietitians, mainly cultivating the client-patient’s concern for his overall health, whether it is weight loss, weight gain, or medication.
The role of the health coach is to provide the tools that will help:
- to adopt new good habits
- to avoid lapses and relapses, and
- will enhance the client-patient’s effort by maximizing the result