Nutrition and Metabolism Resources in Lufkin, TX
We combine our expertise and desire to help patients become healthier to teach our patients about good nutrition and how it impacts their health.
Katia Sloan, Ph.D., RDN, provides nutritional education to patients and helps them plan a healthful diet to meet their nutritional needs. Nutrition counseling and cooking tips enable patients to maintain their journey to a healthier body and lifestyle.
Nutrition Assessment: A variety of data are collected to perform the nutrition assessment.
- Food and nutrition-related history: food intake, herbal and vitamin/mineral supplements, food and nutrition knowledge/skill, beliefs and attitudes, physical activity
- Anthropometric measurements: weight, height, body mass index, body compartment estimates (waist circumference, body fat %)
- Biochemical data: electrolyte and renal profile, lipid profile, glucose profile
- Nutrition-focused physical findings: overall appearance, digestive system (ability to chew and swallow foods and liquids), and vital signs (blood pressure)
- Patient history: alcohol/tobacco use, healthy history, surgery, social history
Nutrition and Lifestyle Change
- Stress management
- Time management
- Social management
- Weight management
- Healthy eating
- Emotional eating
- Plant-based eating
- Vegetarian/vegan eating
- Intermittent fasting
Medical Nutrition Therapy
- Obesity
- Diabetes
- Hypertension
- Chronic kidney disease
- Cardiovascular disease
Services
- Nutrition counseling
- Body composition analysis
- Carb counting
- Diabetes education
- Grocery shopping tour
- Cooking classes
