Nutrition Counseling Services (NCS) offers a wide variety of nutrition services to include individual sessions, cooking classes, and products to help meet your nutrition and health goals.  The focus in on lifestyle change through healthy eating and physical activity/exercise that will produce long-term results.

New Health Wise Products

NCS is now offering Health Wise Products, a line of high quality, delicious supplements designed to meet your overall nutritional needs.  Health Wise products may be incorporated into a mealplan for weight loss or used as snacks for people on the run!  Products include delicious shakes, fruit drinks, cocoas, puddings, meal replacement drinks, multivitamins with minerals, protein bars, and protein/fiber chips.  Click on Health Wise Products & Pricing or contact us today for details on products available in our store.  You may also visit  http://www.healthwisenri.com for an entire list of the products that are available for ordering.

To help you achieve your goals, Nutrition Counseling Services (NCS) will develop an individualized program to meet your specific needs though one of our most popular programs listed below:

Weight Management Program

Includes 6 (1 hour) visits with a Registered Dietitian and participants receive free Weekly Weight Checks and a free Diet and Exercise Journal.  Topics Include:

  • Visit 1: Develop Individualized Plan
  • Visit 2: Menu Planning & Resources
  • Visit 3: Grocery Store Tour
  • Visit 4: Physical Activity
  • Visit 5: Kitchen Makeover
  • Visit 6: Long-Term Weight Maintenance
  • (Additional Visits Available As Needed)

Sensible Eating Program

Build a healthy diet in a stepwise progression as you learn about healthy food choices within each food group (grains, meats and beans, oils, vegetables, fruits, and dairy products).  After your initial assessment visit, you will receive six visits, each one focusing on a new food group.  You will have time between visits to incorporate healthy changes within your diet.   Recipes, menus, and meal planning ideas for each group will be discussed.  Additional Visits Available As Needed

Lifestyle Change Program

Using the toolkit developed by Robert F. Kushner, MD, Nancy Kushner, MSN, RN, and Dawn Jackson Blatner, RD entitled Counseling Overweight Adults: The Lifestyle Patterns Approach and Toolkit, clients are able to rank behaviors in three major areas: eating patterns, exercise patterns, and coping patterns.  Based upon the results of an interactive quiz, clients are given goals to help change their individual habits and behaviors which have led to their excessive weight gain and/or unhealthy eating and activity patterns.  The goals and progress in meeting goals are tracked over time.

Disease Management Programs

Based upon guidelines from the American Dietetic Association, you will be provided Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT) to help manage your disease through healthy eating.  Common diseases include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Overweight/Obesity
  • Diabetes
  • High Cholesterol
  • High Blood Pressure
  • Non-Dialysis Kidney Disease
  • Food Allergies
  • Gastrointestinal Diseases