Lifestyle Nutrition Management           Boston Area Nutritionist

Nutrition consulting by Katherine Tsaioun, Ph.D.,
MA Licensed Dietitian Nutritionist

Dr. Tsaioun offers at-home nutrition counseling in the greater Boston, MA area. Office vists are also available; however, for initial consultations we strongly recommend an in-home visit as it it allows us to better understand your lifestyle and your nutritional issues.

Most health insurance plans recognize that nutritional counseling improves overall health and is highly cost-effective towards avoiding future medical costs. Please check with your health insurance company, as it probably covers visits to MA licensed nutritionists and dietiticians.

Massachusetts Blue Cross/Blue Shield is a leader in covering nutritional counseling services for its insureds: "Nutritional therapy provided by a ... plan licensed dietitian nutritionist is covered in the same way as any other medical care." Lifestyle Nutrition Management is a Blue Cross/Blue Shield plan licensed dietitian nutritionist

The Lifestyle Nutrition Management Approach

• An individualized professional nutritional counseling service.
• Emphasizes making healthy nutrition part of your normal lifestyle.
• Individual and family consultations.
• The approach is mainstream, and relies on well-respected scientific findings. No fad diets or exotic supplements. (We recommend Quackwatch.com's advice for how to obtain professional nutrition advice and avoid unqualified and unscrupulous nutritionists.

• Anorexia
• Bulimia
• Childhood obesity
• Constipation
• Diabetes
• Dietary transitions
• Digestive ailments, such as irritable bowel syndrome
• Excess weight
• Food allergies
• Gout
• High cholesterol
• Hypertension
• Hypoglycemia
• Imbalanced diets
• Indigestion

An assessment of your current and optimal weight, your eating habits, your current nutrition, calorie usage, and the effect of any medical conditions you may have. The assessment includes developing an understanding of your family circumstances, the social aspects of food in your life, and what foods you most and least enjoy.

A comprehensive plan is developed to modify your lifestyle to achieve weight loss. High-calorie/low-nutritional-quality foods are reduced and replaced by lower calorie, nutrient-dense foods. Calorie utilization is increased through lifestyle modification and exercise programs.

If necessary, we can come to you home and explain your program to your family. We review the food in the house and suggest what should be removed, and what should be added. We can suggest menus designed to be workable for your lifestyle, and to please all the people with whom you eat. If cooking skills are a limitation to making the dietary transition, we can provide cooking instruction.

Through periodic office visits or phone consultation we review with you what lifestyle changes are working for you and which are proving to be more difficult than expected. Based on this feedback we adjust the lifestyle modification plan to be more effective.

When you achieve your weight-reduction goals we review with you the long-term lifestyle management issues you will face. With lifestyle nutrition management, there is no return to a "before the diet" state. Instead, your lifestyle is permanently modified. During the weight-loss period you will have been consuming the calories and expending the energy that you should be doing at your desired weight. Once you are at that point, you are in balance.