Encouraging Healthy Lifestyles
Poor nutrition can affect your health in many ways; for example, it can lower your energy levels, cause skin conditions, and negatively affect your mental health. Over time, it can lead to chronic diseases that impact your daily life. Starting a healthy diet can reduce – or even reverse – these effects.
We encourage healthy lifestyles by providing medical nutrition therapy to our patients. This service focuses on preventing and managing chronic diseases, including:
- Heart disease
- Hypertension
- Diabetes
- Kidney disease
- Obesity
The diet and lifestyle changes you make for this can also support your muscles, bone strength, immunity, and more.
To be eligible for medical nutrition therapy services, you must have a referral from your Blackhawk primary care provider.
What to Expect at Your Appointment
During your visit, you and your dietitian will discuss your current daily diet, lifestyle, and overall health. From there, they will provide individually-tailored nutrition recommendations and advise you on behavioral and lifestyle changes that should be made to improve your health outcomes.
Blackhawk Cooking Demonstrations
Every month, we host cooking demonstrations focused on diabetes management, heart health, and weight loss. Patients must sign up with the dietitian to attend these classes; to do this, call 918-968-9531, extension x3042.
To learn more about our upcoming cooking demonstrations, please visit our events page.
About the Nutrition Department
The Nutrition Department is led by a licensed Registered Dietitian. The dietitian earned a master’s degree in nutritional sciences, is certified by the Commission on Dietetic Registration, and is a credentialed Diabetes Care and Education Specialist.
The department encourages patients to maintain a healthy diet, which promotes an improved quality of health and reduces the risk of chronic illnesses.