Dietitian and Nutritionist for COPD
Manage Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease with the help of a dietitian and nutritionist
Enlist the help of our registered dietitian and nutritionist to help manage COPD or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease via nutritional and lifestyle interventions.
How can a dietitian and nutritionist help COPD?
A registered dietitian and nutritionist for COPD can help sufferers in a number of ways. Here’s how:
- Have a dietitian for COPD support can assess your current food and fluid intake to ensure you are meeting your specific nutritional needs.
- Provide strategies to manage shortness of breath during and/or after eating meals.
- Outline strategies to make foods easier to chew, if needed.
- Give tips and strategies to reduce tiredness related to meal prep and eating.
- Implement nutritional interventions to reduce bloating, if needed.
- Create a meal plan to gain weight, if you’ve experienced weight loss due to increased calories used for breathing.
- Enlist the help of a dietitian to lose weight, if recommended, to improve your breathing.
- Create personalized meal plans that meet your specific needs and can make breathing easier, while taking into account any other health conditions and lifestyle factors.
- Provide follow-up sessions to monitor progress, address additional concerns, answer questions and make ongoing adjustments to the plan, if necessary.
- Address any other co-existing chronic disease and/or conditions, needs and goals. Examples: work with a dietitian for diabetes, IBS nutritionist, PCOS support dietitian, sports nutritionist and more.
- Work with other health professionals to help manage symptoms, if applicable.
- Have concerns addressed and questions answered by a registered dietitian and nutritionist who specializes in COPD–if within scope of dietary practice.
- And more.
Other and related services
In addition to working with a nutritionist and dietitian for COPD you can work with our practitioners to help address a variety of other health and nutrition concerns.
Free Consultation
Schedule a free, no-obligation phone consultation during which we can:
- Outline how the process works
- Discuss your goal(s)
- Explain how billing and pricing work
- Address concerns about insurance
- Help you select a practitioner
- Answer any other questions
- And more
How much it costs to work with our nutritionists and dietitians?
Get started
To learn more about our team of registered dietitians and nutritionists who provide nutritional support for COPD and other conditions, visit the following page
Where to Find Our COPD Dietitian and Nutritionist
You can work with our dietitians in Ontario, Nova Scotia and British Columbia on-site, in-person at one of the below offices.
Office Locations
Virtual COPD support
You can also choose to receive nutritional counselling with a COPD nutritionist and dietitian virtually.
We also provide nutritional counselling virtually to the residents of other provinces: Alberta, Saskatchewan, MB, New Brunswick, NL , PEI, Quebec and the territories.
For more information on the services offered in each city and service area, visit:
Dietitian Recommended COPD Resources
Our dietitians and nutritionists also encourage you to take a look at the below COPD resources.