Episodes
June 19, 2024
60 | Nutrition for Surgical Wound Healing
Send Colleen a Text Message The impact of nutrition on wound healing cannot be overstated. The outcomes of a surgery are directly related to your patient's nutrition status prior to and after surgery. My guest and fellow Diet...
June 12, 2024
59 | Interpreting Growth Charts to Address Pediatric Weight Concerns
Send Colleen a Text Message Get the FREE guide to interpreting Growth Charts here : In this episode, we dive deep into the world of pediatric growth charts with Kat, the Failure to Thrive Dietitian. We explore how to effectiv...
June 5, 2024
58 | Infant Formula: A Clinician's Guide to Choosing the Right One
Send Colleen a Text Message Have you ever been in the formula room in your clinic? Do you ever feel like it's a sea of names and, if you're being honest, you have no idea what you're looking at? I completely understand. When...
May 30, 2024
57 | Ask the Dietitian: Cancer Survivorship and Nutrition
Send Colleen a Text Message This is part 2 of Ask the Dietitian: Cancer Nutrition. Today we welcome back Oncology PA, Dane Thomas and oncology Dietitian, Julie Lanford who continue the conversation about the crucial role of n...
May 29, 2024
56 | Ask the Dietitian: Cancer Nutrition Strategies
Send Colleen a Text Message Welcome to a new format that I'll be bringing to the podcast occasionally. I call it, Ask the Dietitian, where I feature 2 guests. One is a medical professional with nutrition questions and the oth...
May 22, 2024
55 | Celiac Disease and the Gluten-Free Diet
Send Colleen a Text Message A gluten-free diet is the definitive treatment for patients with celiac disease, but it's not so easy to follow. Patients might ask you, "What foods can I eat?", "What can't I eat?", "Will a breadc...
May 15, 2024
54 | Infant Reflux Relief: Advice for Anxious Parents
Send Colleen a Text Message "My baby spits up a lot!" What the mom is actually saying to you as the clinician: "I'm really worried! Is something wrong with her?" and what the dad is saying, "Please, make it stop. I'm sick of ...
May 8, 2024
53 | Gather 'Round: How to Make Family Meals Doable for Busy Parents With Picky Kids
Send Colleen a Text Message Let's be real - getting a meal on the table after a long work day is so tough. Juggling an infant and a wiggly picky toddler makes the mealtime experience exhausting. But yet, study after study pro...
May 1, 2024
52 | Fatty Liver Disease: The Role of Fats, Carbs and Cleanses
Send Colleen a Text Message Do you think carbohydrates or dietary fat affect the liver more? Are there any liver superfoods that support liver function? Should patients do a liver cleanse? These are real questions patients as...
April 26, 2024
51 | The 5-Minute Rule - A Provider's Guide to Helping Patients Lose Weight: Part 8
Send Colleen a Text Message Dealing with unmotivated patients can be one of the most challenging aspects of our work as healthcare providers. For today’s episode, I’m going to challenge this thought: are our patients unmotiva...
April 24, 2024
50 | What Does A Dietitian Do, Anyway?
Send Colleen a Text Message What is a Registered Dietitian and what do they do? Maybe when you think of a dietitian you think of the food police, spoiling all the fun. Or maybe you imagine a lady wearing a hair net serving ho...
April 17, 2024
49 | The Biggest Cancer Nutrition Myths
Send Colleen a Text Message Eating a healthy diet and maintaining a healthy weight are key to reducing cancer risk. However, when patients are faced with a recent cancer diagnosis or are undergoing cancer treatment, they are ...
April 10, 2024
48 | Infant Gagging, Food Aversions and Diagnosing a Pediatric Feeding Disorder
Send Colleen a Text Message More than 1 in 37 children under age 5 in the United States have a pediatric feeding disorder. Today, I'm joined by Bri, a Pediatric Speech Language Pathologist and Certified Lactation Counselor, ...
April 3, 2024
47 | Nutrition and Infertility: Is Your Diagnosis Wrong?
Send Colleen a Text Message One in six couples struggle with fertility challenges. While determining the cause for infertility can be challenging, making the right diagnosis is crucial for proper treatment. Chelsea Dishong, ...
March 27, 2024
46 | Food Play: The Secret Solution to Picky Eating
Send Colleen a Text Message "Oh by the way, he's really picky. What do I do?" Does your heart sink when you hear this question? If we're being honest, does it make you want to roll your eyes? Navigating picky eating is a mass...
March 25, 2024
45 | A Mindset Shift for Overcoming Dieting Failures - A Provider's Guide to Helping Patient's Lose Weight: Part 7
Send Colleen a Text Message I believe that for every setback there is an opportunity for both our patients and us to grow stronger and be more capable in the future. In today’s episode, we'll explore why diets fail and how we...
March 20, 2024
44 | Bounce-back Culture: The Truth About Postpartum Nutrition
Send Colleen a Text Message I’d argue that postpartum is one of the most emotionally and physically challenging times in a woman’s life. In this episode, we're joined by special guest, The Postpartum Dietitian, Taylor Leon, ...
March 13, 2024
43 | Nutrition and Kidney Disease: What's a Renal Diet?
Send Colleen a Text Message Does the topic of nephrology and kidney function give you PTSD? For most of us in primary care, nephrology probably wasn’t your strong point in school. And even now in practice, if we’re being hone...
March 8, 2024
42 | 7 Traps of Goal-Setting and How to Avoid Them - A Provider's Guide to Helping Patient's Lose Weight: Part 6
Send Colleen a Text Message Help me make this podcast better. If you've got 30 seconds to answer 5 questions , you could win a $10 Amazon gift card . According to James Clear, "bad habits repeat themselves again and again not...
March 6, 2024
41 | Silent Battles: The Secret Struggle of Eating Disorders
Send Colleen a Text Message “I realized the thing I was doing was going to be taken from me, and I felt out of control.” In this inspiring episode, we peak into the world of eating disorders, discovering the silent battles fo...
Feb. 28, 2024
40 | Nutrition for Autism: Manage Mealtime Meltdowns with a Sensory-based Approach
Send Colleen a Text Message 1 in 36 children have autism. If you work in pediatrics, I can guarantee that you are faced with questions about selective eating and mealtime meltdowns. For today's episode, I brought the expert i...
Feb. 23, 2024
39 | What Diet Should I Go On? - A Provider's Guide to Helping Patients Lose Weight: Part 5
Send Colleen a Text Message What diet should I go on? Have your patients ever asked you this? As with most questions about nutrition, the answer, truly depends. Join me, Colleen Sloan, on the fifth episode of this 10-part ser...
Feb. 21, 2024
38 | Love Your Heart: Nutrition Insights That Save Lives
Send Colleen a Text Message In honor of American Heart Month, I am joined by Registered Dietitian, Michelle Rothenstein, to share invaluable insights and practical tips for healthcare providers to support patients with cardio...
Feb. 13, 2024
37 | From Yuck to Yum! Strategies to Conquer Picky Eating
Send Colleen a Text Message Do parents ask you for advice for their picky eater? Do your patients say "yuck, I don't like that" when you suggest they try some broccoli? How would you answer a mom who says, "my child only eats...