Outpatient Nutrition Counseling at St. Charles

Outstanding Services by Licensed, Registered Dietitians

The Outpatient Nutrition Counseling services at St. Charles Bend, offers nutrition education and counseling for people that have specialized diet needs or for those seeking guidance in sound nutrition.

Our unique program includes dietitians that are registered, licensed and very experienced in nutritional counseling. Other programs in Central Oregon do not have registered licensed dietitians on staff. Our highly trained dietitians can help you manage your nutrition needs, including:

• Physician-prescribed diets
• Heart-healthy eating
• Diabetes
• Weight concerns
• Eating for better health
• Nutrition classes
• Non-diet approaches to healthy eating and weight
• Making healthy food choices and planning meals
• Decreasing fat, cholesterol, sodium intake
• Nutrition during pregnancy and breast-feeding
• Child nutrition
• Healthy restaurant eating and grocery shopping
• Emotional eating and disordered eating
• Understanding diets for various diseases
• Choosing supplements to increase calories and/or protein
• Different methods of feeding, such as tube feeding
• Fluid needs
• Improving oral intake for patients with swallowing difficulty, chewing problems, dry mouth, nausea, vomiting, anorexia, or bulimia

Please see Eating for a Healthy Body where you'll find brief summaries on how to manage your ideal weight, lower your cholesterol, and foods to eat or avoid for a healthy body. You can also use the Body Mass Index Calculator for Adults and Ideal Weight Calculator to help you gauge and plan your weight management and find more information about Diabetes & Nutrition.

Contact Us For More Information

For more information, please call (541) 382-4321 ext. 7186.