Childhood Obesity

How Can A Childhood Obesity Dietitian and Nutritionist Help

A registered dietitian and nutritionist can help manage childhood obesity in many ways:

✓  Assess your child’s current dietary intake and specific nutritional needs, and make recommendations for improvement.

✓  Provide education around how much food your child needs to be healthy, based on their age, gender, size and physical activity level.

✓  Supply general healthy eating tips and advice that’s geared specifically towards your child’s individualized case.

✓  Provide healthy and delicious recipes based on foods your child enjoys.

✓  Suggest more nutritious food substitutions for their favourite foods, if needed.

✓  Outline nutritious meal options for the whole family.

✓  Prepare a personalized meal plan for healthy growth and development, if desired.

✓  Work with a family nutritionist to create a whole family nutrition plan.

✓  Provide follow-up sessions to monitor progress, address additional concerns, and adjust the plan, if necessary.

✓  Provide strategies to help increase physical activity, if needed.

✓  Have the opportunity to work with a sports nutrition dietitian or personal trainer-nutritionist for guidance around physical activity.

✓  Pick the brain of a registered dietitian for pediatric care.

✓  Work with a dietitian for disordered eating to help manage behaviours (e.g., manage binge eating behaviour, picky eating behaviour)  that can sabotage positive change.

✓  Help address other dietary conditions (Examples: digestive health, ADHD diet support et al.)

✓  Work in conjunction with your medical doctor and other health practitioners.

✓  And more.