Dietitian and Nutritionist For Childhood Obesity

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

• Receive education from a pediatric dietitian pertaining to childhood obesity, the involved risks and more, if desired.
• 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.
• Suggest foods, snacks, meals and recipes that are conducive to boosting nutrient intake and aimed at reducing weight.
• Prepare a personalized meal plan to help guide the parents in the healthy growth and development of their child, 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.
• Work with a sports dietitian to help provide strategies to increase physical activity and align nutrition with exercise, if needed.
• 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. Enlist the help of a digestive health support dietitian, ADHD support dietitian et al.
• Work in conjunction with your medical doctor and other health practitioners.
• And more.