Nutrition

 Every parent knows how stressful it can be when kids don’t eat well. This is even more so for parents whose kids have a decreased appetite due to illness, or treatment like chemotherapy, which can bring food aversions and taste changes.

Our Registered Dietitian Nutritionls help parents and kids get creative in order to ensure children on treatment get the nutrition that will get them the calories they need to heal and stay strong. This program helps ensure patients have access to comprehensive, personalized, and evidenced-based medical nutrition therapy.

Nutritionists help patients and their families establish, achieve, and maintain unique nutritional goals. In working directly with members of the medical and psychosocial team, they offer support to manage patients’ symptoms and side effects and to promote their growth and development. This is important not only during treatment but also for long-term nutritional well-being once treatment has ended.

Nutrition counseling and education helps equip patients and families with the tools to develop and implement individualized care plans while building a healthy, sustainable relationship with food.