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From losing weight to eating better, many common New Year’s Resolutions are health focused. With the start of 2020 (and the new decade) just around the corner, new year, new me is a common mantra. Dr. Nicole Giambrone– a primary care physician with Ochsner Health Center – Lake Terrace – has a few tips for setting up and keeping your healthy New Year’s Resolutions all year long!
Giambrone says “Making conscious, smart food and fitness choices every day is not easy. It’s important to remember that beginning and maintaining a healthy lifestyle is a marathon, not a sprint.”
When considering what you’d like your New Year’s resolution to be, follow these three steps:
Remember – what you put into your body is vital to your overall health and wellbeing. If you decide 2020 is the year you want to focus on eating healthier, here’s a three-step recipe for success:
Dr. Giambrone says, “There will be times when you fail, but that’s okay! Give yourself a little grace to make a better health-focused decision the next time and go from there.”
About Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Health is Louisiana’s largest non-profit, academic, healthcare system. Driven by a mission to Serve, Heal, Lead, Educate and Innovate, coordinated clinical and hospital patient care is provided across the region by Ochsner's 40 owned, managed and affiliated hospitals and specialty hospitals, and more than 100 health centers and urgent care centers. Ochsner is the #1 ranked hospital in Louisiana by U.S. News & World Report and is recognized as a “Best Hospital” across two specialty categories caring for patients from all 50 states and more than 70 countries worldwide each year. Ochsner Hospital for Children is the only facility in Louisiana to be recognized as a top 50 children’s hospital by U.S. News & World Report for three consecutive years. Ochsner employs nearly 25,000 employees and over 4,500 employed and affiliated physicians in over 90 medical specialties and subspecialties and conducts more than 700 clinical research studies. Ochsner Health is proud to be a tobacco-free environment. For more information, please visit ochsner.org and follow us on Twitter and Facebook.