Nutrition & Weight Management
Nutrition For a Healthier You
We provide personalized nutrition assessments, coaching, and weight management programs to empower you to make informed choices about your health:
- Healthy eating
- Weight management
- Specialized clinical diets
- Enhancing athletic performance
Our team helps you develop plans tailored to your unique health goals. We can help whether you're pursuing better overall wellness, managing a medical condition, or wanting to optimize your performance.
Nutrition Consultation
Meeting with a registered dietitian can help you make meaningful changes to your diet. One size doesn’t fit all in nutrition, so our experts provide customized advice to help you create long-lasting habits. From entry-level consultation to specialized care, we can connect you with the right expert to address your needs.
Service Options
- Individual Consultations: 30 or 60 minute sessions to explore strategies for optimal health and performance.
- Three Session Package: For in-depth guidance and accountability over multiple sessions.
In addition to general nutrition guidance, dietitians can also support specialized needs, such as managing digestive disorders or conditions requiring clinical diets (with a provider referral).
Medical Nutrition Therapy
Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT) is a nutrition-based treatment to assist in managing diabetes and other chronic illnesses. If you think you might qualify, ask your primary care provider for a referral. This may be covered by insurance. For more information, call 801-213-8284.
Intuitive Eating
Come make peace with food, movement, and your body by learning and practicing the 10 principles of Intuitive Eating! This 10-week class is virtual via Zoom.
Intuitive eating is all about creating a healthy relationship around food, body, mind, and movement through self-care and body appreciation, regardless of weight or size. The main concepts in intuitive eating include finding satisfaction and pleasure in eating, and moving your body for the sake of feeling good. You’ll learn how to reject diet mentality and to respect your body. regardless of how you feel about its shape. You’ll also find was to apply gentle nutrition without judgment. Founded in decades of research, becoming an intuitive eater pays off.
Culinary Medicine
Our culinary medicine course goes beyond macro and micronutrient education. You’ll learn how nutrition translates into practical food choices and how to give your patients advice regarding what, when, why, and how to eat.
This class takes place in a teaching kitchen where you’ll prepare and enjoy meals while discussing the science of nutrition and how to help patients make lasting health behavior change.
Weight Management Classes
New You & New Youth Programs
The New You (for adults) and New Youth (for individuals under 18) programs focus on healthy eating, physical activity, and weight management. We use proven, evidence-based methods to guide our programs. Each program consists of group classes and one-on-one consultations with a registered dietitian.
You must meet a few requirements to participate in our program:
- Must hit BMI requirements
- Referral from a primary care provider
- Insurance coverage using billing codes G0447 and G0473 (this is a billable service)
Food Pharmacy
The Food Pharmacy program, part of the Driving Out Diabetes Initiative, is University of Utah Health’s answer to food insecurity. Its purpose is to serve patients in the community who are struggling with chronic nutrition-related conditions while also experiencing food insecurity.
Our goal is to use food as medicine to support patients. We advocate for the prevention and management of nutrition-related diseases by increasing access to healthy foods and nutrition resources.
Participation in the Food Pharmacy program is by doctor referral only. Eligibility is based on indicators of food insecurity and parameters of health.
