Areas of expertise include:
· Celiac Disease
· Weight management
· PCOS
· Osteoporosis
· Menopause
· Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and constipation
· Inflammatory bowel disease (colitis, Crohn’s)
· Sports nutrition
· Healthy eating, cooking, recipe modification, dining out
· Expert Witness Support - Medical Malpractice
· Eating Disorders (anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder)
· Diabetes Mellitus
· Lipid Disorders (abnormal LDL-, HDL-cholesterol, triglycerides)
· Congestive Heart Failure
· High blood pressure
· Hypoglycemia
Services include:
· A thorough nutritional assessment. Prior to your initial session, you will be asked to fax or mail to RMI:
· Results of most recent blood work and pertinent medical tests;
· Self-completed nutrition history questionnaire (supplied by RMI);
· Doctor’s referral (for medical conditions only);
· Three-day nutritional intake, activity, and symptom records (supplied by RMI)
· At your initial consultation, you will:
· Receive and review a computer print-out of your dietary analysis that identifies potential nutritional inadequacies or excesses;
· Discuss nutrition, health, calorie, weight, and activity goals and construct a written action plan outlining the short-term goals to be achieved and how to achieve them;
· Receive an individualized meal and activity plan and/or a handout with suggested changes to help you work toward achieving your goals,
· Receive customized printed educational handouts to reinforce treatment principles discussed;
· Discuss, examine, and/or taste foods that will make dietary change easier for you, based upon your food preferences and history; and
· Determine frequency of follow-up consultations and how to deal with questions or set-backs in the interim to maintain progress in achieving treatment goals.
· At follow-up consultations, you will:
· Review progress made with treatment goals and discuss how to maintain or achieve current or additional treatment goals;
· Review results of new medical tests/exams in relation to your nutritional status and treatment goals;
· Discuss areas of concern and those not covered in depth during your initial consultation (label reading, dining out, recipe modification, etc.); and
· As necessary, complete food/activity/symptom records, receive and discuss their results and impact on your treatment.
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