Nutrition
What does a Registered Dietitian do?
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Helps you make changes in your eating and activity behaviours to improve your health or manage existing health conditions
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Works together with you to create a nutrition care plan to fit your lifestyle and preferences with a focus on setting small, realistic goals at each visit
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Works closely with your family physician, nurse, mental health counsellor and other team members to provide better care, together
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May recommend bloodwork to identify your nutritional needs and measure progress
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Discusses what, when, and how to eat to improve health and also explore the reasons behind why we eat the way we do
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Provides nutrition advice
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Improves heart health by lowering cholesterol and high blood pressure
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Helps with chronic disease such as pre-diabetes, diabetes, kidney, cancer, osteoporosis
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Provides dietary strategies to manage gastrointestinal issues in irritable bowel syndrome, celiac disease, and food intolerances
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Gives you information about nutritional deficiencies including iron deficiency and pernicious anemia
