Nutrition Counselling

We help with:

• Osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis
• Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA)
• Ankylosing spondylitis (AS)
• Pain reduction and bone health
• Psoriatic arthritis (PsA)
• Gout

Food and supplements can have a powerful impact on arthritis by managing inflammation and increasing bone health.

We help with:

• In-treatment nutrition management
• Weight management
• Energy management
• Post-treatment recovery of health
• Cancer prevention

Cancer treatment can affect the way your body digests and metabolizes certain foods and uses nutrients. Proper nutrition can help to increase strength and energy, reduce complications due to treatments, manage body weight and increase immune function.

We help with:

• High cholesterol and blood fats
• High blood pressure, hypertension
• Metabolic syndrome
• Coronary artery disease
• Heart attack
• Stroke

Diet and lifestyle changes can reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease and stroke by up to 80%. Select a dietitian-lead comprehensive or express cardio health program that many cardiologists refer to but a doctor referral is not required.

As a team, you will learn and be coached on:

• Planning your family/household meals for 2 based on individual needs and goals
• Menu planning and grocery shopping
• Understanding food labels
• Eating at restaurants and eating out
• Planning for vacations/travel
• Behaviour change and tactics to overcome barriers: emotional eating, environmental influences, cravings, learned behaviour

A team approach could be the key to achieving your health goals! Get your partner on board for increased accountability and to make it easy to eat the same meals.

We help with:

• Management of blood sugar levels and HbA1c
• Prediabetes and Type 2 prevention and management
• Type 1 management
• Reduced medication needs through nutrition
• Healthy eating for blood sugar regulation

Prediabetes affects over 6 million Canadians and, if left unmanaged, can result in type 2 diabetes. Having high blood sugars with high cholesterol and/or triglycerides plus elevated blood pressure / hypertension can increase your risk of: kidney disease, heart disease and stroke, vision loss, nerve damage, amputation and mental health issues.

We help with:

• Constipation and Complications
• Gas, Bloating and Diarrhea
• IBD, Crohn’s, Colitis
• Allergies and Sensitivities, Celiac Disease
• Esophagitis
• And More

Digestive problems can present themselves in many different ways and there’s no “pause button” to delay often uncomfortable or even painful symptoms. Get help from Dietitians Today!

We help with:

• Binge eating disorder
• Restrictive eating
• Disordered eating including irregular or inflexible eating patterns, chronic dieting and weight fluctuation and more.
• Feelings of loss of control around food
• Emotional eating

Disordered Eating can negatively impact our thoughts and take away from the joys of eating. It can also affect other meaningful areas of life and can feel all-consuming. It is our goal to help you navigate through your challenging relationship with food using science-based techniques, make peace with your thoughts and find enjoyment in eating again!

Our Family Nutrition Program helps with:

• Eating better as a family unit
• Building healthy relationships with food
• Dealing with picky eaters and differences in food preferences (also see our Picky Eating Program overview which is designed specifically for picky eaters)
• Managing various nutrition needs without making multiple meals
• Meal planning
• Time-saving and economic approaches to meal preparation
• Education through different nutrition topics delivered at each session specific to your family’s needs. Dozens of topics to choose from, including family meal planning and navigating the grocery store.

Common Family Nutrition Counselling goals include eating better as a unit while meeting the diverse nutrition needs and time constraints. Learn more about how we can help with your family nutrition concerns.

We help with:

• Eating for increased energy
• The prevention and correction of nutritional deficiencies
• Healthy aging, disease prevention
• Plant-based, vegetarian and vegan eating
• Building healthy eating habits for life
• Eating for improved brain and mental health

Healthy eating is NOT about dieting. It means making meaningful, healthy and maintainable nutrition lifestyle changes.

Support for:

• Balancing your hormones
• Supplementation
• Foods to include more or less for your symptoms
• Eating habit change coaching
• Meal planning
• Managing a clinical diagnosis with food-first approach

Based on your specific goals and hormone levels, your dietitian will educate you on food and supplements that will help you to optimize your hormones, as well as how to incorporate these into achievable lifestyle changes.

Our program is designed to help relieve or resolve common IBS symptoms:

• Abdominal pain and cramping
• Constipation
• Diarrhea
• A feeling of incomplete emptying of the bowels
• Gas
• Bloating
• Heartburn
• Nausea

Many people live without being diagnosed with IBS but it is a common concern that affects nearly 20% of Canadians. IBS involves problems with the movement of digested food through the intestines and how the brain interprets signals from the intestinal nerves leading to various symptoms. This non-life threatening condition can effectively be managed with nutrition therapy.

We help with:

• Fatty liver, including non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)
• High cholesterol and blood lipids
• Cholestasis
• Hemochromatosis
• Gallstones
• Metabolic syndrome

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) affects 7 million Canadians and results from poor diet in which alcohol may or may not be a factor. By reversing stage 1 NAFLD or fatty liver, you will reduce the risk of developing further liver complications such as inflammation, scarring and cirrhosis, which could develop into liver cancer and failure.

We help with:

• Picky eating behaviours
• Growth concerns for infants and toddlers
• Excess weight concerns
• Meal modifications for allergies and intolerances
• Nutritional needs and plans for vegetarian and vegan children

The Picky Eaters Program is designed to:

• Help overcome picky eating
• Meet your child’s nutrition needs for growth and development
• Promote improved focus and mood
• Build a healthy relationship with food and healthy eating habits for life

This program is for infants from 6 months, all the way up to young adolescents, and involves one-on-one sessions with a pediatric dietitian who will support you along your journey to happy and healthy meal times.

We help with:

• Performance for professional and recreational athletes (youth, adults and master’s class athletes)
• Nutrition intake on- and off-season as well as during different training blocks and recovery
• Fueling for training, performance, and recovery
• Energy, protein, fat and carbohydrate (macro) needs
• Weight and muscle gain or loss and body composition improvements
• Supplement education and recommendations
• Personalized nutrition for your health needs

Athletes need good nutrition for health, including needs for growth and immune health as well as for performance. Whether you are fuelling yourself or fuelling another athlete, knowing what and when to eat and drink is critical to sports performance, on-and off-season.

Proven program designed for:

• 5 – 65 lbs weight loss based on your goals
• Sustainable results with personalization to your lifestyle
• Safe and effective weight loss management
• Chronic disease prevention and management, including reducing belly or visceral fat, a risk factor for diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, fatty liver and other metabolic disorders
• Overcoming emotional eating and problematic eating behaviours
• Successful meal planning using all food groups
• Long-term weight loss maintenance
• Healthy pre, during and post-pregnancy weight

Our unique weight loss program is our most popular service that many doctors refer to but a doctor referral is not needed.

We help with eating behaviours triggered by:

• Emotions, such as tiredness, stress, anxiety, boredom and loneliness
• Food environment around you
• Learned behaviours, such as overeating

Emotional eating is eating to feed our emotions, not our physiological needs. Emotional eating often leads us to eat too much, to eat unhealthy foods, and can lead to a very unhealthy relationship with food. Our program using the Craving Change methods is based on cognitive-behavioural tools, activities and strategies to help overcome problematic and emotional eating behaviours.