Thank you for visiting our "what we do" page and learning from our content. The opportunities available here support expanding awareness to create your personal lifestyle for healthy longevity. Many programs we offer are free with some at a reasonable fee to ensure community engagement.
Plants are just good for us. Plants support our well-being. Not only are they great for the inside of our bodymind, they support our mental well-being, brighten our outlook, and beautify our landscape, too.
If you need help maintaining or designing your outside plant space, send me an email. I would love to help you transform your outside environment into a beautiful space for renewal and connection.
Email me for more information: joetta@dietforbalancedhealth.com
The Perfect Health Lifestyle Program is a consciousness based lifestyle program divided into five lessons. These lessons are taught separately in a program designed to meet your needs. The Perfect Health: Ayurvedic Lifestyle lessons include an Introduction to Ayurveda, Ayurvedic Nutrition, Emotional Freedom, Inner Pharmacy and Ayurvedic Daily Routines. Online learning transpires via the ZOOM app. Visit the Perfect Health Flyer section below for a downloadable Perfect Health Lifestyle flyer.
Discover Your CALM with Breath and Meditation Program Details found HERE
For more information about the elemental make up of your biological constitution use the following link: My awareness of self expands with learning.
For support with the Ayurveda way of eating use this link: Learn about the six tastes here.
Meditation is one of the six pillars of health. As a core practice of the Perfect Health Ayurvedic Lifestyle program, meditation earns a place of its own. Meditation offers us many benefits for which we can be grateful. Our journey in meditation begins with a mind filled with active thoughts, judgments, analysis and interpretations. And with practice, our journey takes us to a mind of silence. With a daily practice, we begin to soften into the stillness of our awareness until we experience the pureness of silence within.
The Perfect Health Lifestyle Program is expanding and people are interested in meeting together in person to support common well-being and longevity goals. This spring DIETforbalancedhealth.com subscribers and students of T'ai Chi Chih and of the Perfect Health Lifestyle classes have gathered together to move in nature as the DIET for Balanced Health's Hiking Society. As this community grows, so will the opportunities to engage together for fun and adventure all the while benefiting the mind, body and spirit. Use this link to see pictures of our adventures.
T’ai Chi Chih has nineteen moves and one pose to sculpt a healthier mind, body and spirit. The benefits of this moving meditation extend beyond calmness and allow practitioners to enhance balance, maintain weight and blood pressure, increase bone density and flexibility, strengthen muscles, and reduce pain.
Reading inspirational literature together builds community, strengthens understanding and empowers us to be our true selves. Subscribers will be invited to join our reading club throughout the year.
Books we read together:
2021 - Non-violent Communication - A Language of Life by Marshal B Rosenberg.
2022 - The Four Agreements by Don Miquel Ruiz
2023 - The Book of Secrets - Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life by Deepak Chopra
2024 - The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
2024 - I Wish I'd known This - 6 career-Accelerating Secrets for Women Leaders
by Brenda Wensil and Katheryn Heath
2025 -Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
Check out the Discover and Grow Reading Club Inspirational Graphics Here.
The Balanced Health blog features articles that empower your sense of taste, touch, sound, sight and smell. Our senses are the gateways to our environmental experiences. As you learn about yourself, you begin to discover how you respond to sensory stimulation. Through this self-awareness, you learn how to balance your mind-body in the present moment.
Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, JoEtta Heck, will periodically offer to clients cooking classes that focus on step by step instruction, food safety, nutrition facts, mindful eating and healthy recipes. Learning to mindfully eat chocolate is a practice.
With so many options for finding recipes on-line, my recipes are unique as they include a bit of creative fun, food safety cues and spices or sauces to incorporate the six tastes of Ayurveda into meal planning.
Self-care begins at home and the heart of your home is often found in your kitchen. Together, we will explore the current trends of whole foods that support the Perfect Health Lifestyle Program. Consider submitting your ideas for this segment using the action button below.
"Registered Dietitian Nutritionists (RDNs) are food and nutrition experts with a minimum of a graduate degree from an accredited dietetics program and who completed a supervised practice requirement, passed a national exam and continue professional development throughout their careers," states the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics on the eatright.com site.
Credentialed professions identify their practitioners as trained experts. It’s a qualification in a profession, much like the MD credential for your primary care medical provider, aka, your physician or doctor. Registered Dietitian Nutritionists (RDNs) are credentialed practitioners in the nutrition and dietetics profession. Most often when someone uses the term “dietitian”, they are referring to an RDN.
As a legally protected title, “Registered Dietitian Nutritionist” is only awarded to those practitioners who successfully completed specific educational requirements, passed a national exam, and continue life-long learning through a focused professional development plan reviewed by a nationally recognized credentialing agency. For the RDN, this agency is known as the Commission on Dietetics Registration.
It is illegal for any other practitioner to use the title of RDN. Many states are also adopting the title “Board Certified Dietitian” or "Licensed Dietitian" to distinguish the RDN as the nutrition expert in their state.
Often confusing to the consumer is the term “nutritionist” Anyone can call themselves a “nutritionist”. There is no legal or even standardize definition of this term. Nor is there any entity regulating its user's educational background, training, and ethical behavior which may result in unqualified health care recommendations that cause people harm.
No matter what someone calls themselves “dietitian” or “nutritionist”, check their credentials to make certain you are employing a qualified nutrition expert to work with you to reach your nutrition and well-being goals. (1)
(1) "What is an RDN?", Eatright.org. https://www.eatright.org/about-rdns-and-ndtrs Accessed 2025.03.04
Click on the links below to take political action on the listed issues. Remove parts of the written letters, like Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, that may not apply to you. Write your own personal story/feelings about these issues in the area provided. Of course, fill in the boxes with your personal information so you reach your elected senator or representative.
Congress votes on some of these issues March 14, 2025.
Medicare Patient Access and Practice Stabilization Act (H.R. 879)
To send a letter in support of this act: Click HERE
Urge Congress to Avoid the Impact of a Federal Shutdown, Extend Critical Waivers and Protect Nutrition Programs
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Support Nutrition Research and Protect Public Health
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Action Needed: Tell Congress to Oppose Changes to SNAP and School Lunch Program
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