Nutrition Services

Whether you’re healthy and looking to stay that way; recovering from an injury, illness or recently received a new diagnosis — nutrition is a crucial piece of your ability to achieve your health goals.

Nutrition counseling can help:

Manage chronic conditions like diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, Chron’s disease, ulcerative colitis, and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
Lower the risk of heart disease, diabetes, certain cancers, and obesity
Lower the risk of bone fractures, osteoporosis
Alleviate diverticulitis, uncomfortable digestive symptoms and chronic inflammation
Assist with weight loss or weight gain

RVNAhealth comprehensive nutrition programming includes personalized education, meal plans, counseling and motivational interviewing, recipe development, and exercise prescriptions for all goals, activity levels, and age groups.

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RVNAhealth Nutrition Services & Programs

Individual Nutrition Counseling (One-On-One)

One-on-one comprehensive nutrition and wellness sessions tailored to your medical history, nutrient needs, and goals. Individualized counseling is perfect for someone who feels ready, or in need of, a lifestyle change, usually involving one or more visits with our dietitian.

What’s included? What YOU need to be successful.

Meal plans
Recipes
Education
Motivational Interviewing
Nutrition prescription plan
Exercise prescription plan

Price:

15-minute Phone Consultation prior to Initial Visit – Free
1-hour Initial Visit – $125; 45-minute Follow-up Visits – $85

*Ask about our 65+ discounts
RVNAhealth accepts Medicare B reimbursement for the following conditions: diabetes, renal disease, and kidney transplants. Please contact RVNAhealth for details.

Interactive Cooking Classes

Intimate hands-on cooking classes where you do the cooking along side our dietitian. Each cooking class will be focused on a specific health and wellness topic, and each recipe highlighted will be in theme with the topic.

What is included:

1-full meal (plus leftovers too)
Recipe
Educational toolkit
One on one time with dietitian to answer all of your nutrition questions

Price:

$65 per person

Private Events at RVNAhealth

Private events are held in our beautiful, chef’s grade teaching kitchen. You are in total control on how you envision your event to be and our dietitian will bring it to life. From curated menu’s to personalized nutrient prescriptions to hands-on cooking (and all of the above) – there is no limit to what you can do.

Events include (but are not limited to)

Bachelorette parties
Family gatherings
Girls Night Out
Corporate/Team Building Events

Price:

Call us at 203-438-5555 x 1152
or email nutrition@rvnahealth.org for an estimate!

Upcoming Nutrition Classes & Programs

There are no upcoming events.

Meet RVNAhealth Nutritionist Monica Marcello, MS, RD

Monica Marcello, MS, RD is RVNAhealth’s registered dietitian and nutrition educator who promotes holistic health, longevity, and quality of life. Monica’s areas of expertise include disease prevention and treatment for many chronic and acute conditions. Her primary concentration includes treating digestive disorders such as GERD (Gastroesophageal reflux disorder), IBS (irritable bowel syndrome), SIBO (small intestinal bacterial overgrowth) and IBD (inflammatory bowel disease). Monica also has extensive experience in conditions such as heart disease, high cholesterol, diabetes, obesity, and weight management.

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Have a question about nutrition? Email Monica your question and she will get back to you with her advice.

RVNAhealth offers appointments in both our Ridgefield and New Milford office locations as well as virtual sessions. Appointments in your home are available for an additional travel fee.

Client Testimonials

Monica listened actively to my goals and we shared a plan to achieve them. She added information at a doable pace so I felt I was having successes. The proof of my success came with the results of my last lab tests, all of which showed improvement, which I did not expect. I had hoped to remain stable. Improvement has been a gift."

Monica has been so encouraging and has provided me with the skills to adapt my favorite recipes so that I can meet my protein and calcium goals!".

I have been given so many recommendations to incorporate healthy eating into my diet. I am very pleased."

Monica developed the diet plan based on what I was used to eating. She educated me on importance of balancing protein, good fats and carbs. Helped me learn how to incorporate other foods into healthy snacks and meals. Monica responded to email in a timely manner. She was very encouraging about my reaching my weight goals."

“Monica is incredibly knowledgeable, personable, caring, takes the time to listen, professional, and dedicated to achieving results. Monica has helped me to change my diet to eat foods that contain 1200 milligrams of calcium daily and lower my cholesterol. Monica gave me specific brand names and stores that carried these foods, and if I said I didn’t like something, she immediately came up with other ideas, she never gives up. She gave me information that I couldn’t find online."

"My cholesterol level was at a critically high limit only 3 months ago. Monica provided me with nutritional education, meal planning tools, and set reasonable dietary goals. Working closely as a team, she helped me to understand healthy food choices as we attained a sustainable balanced diet! I have taken her lessons and integrated them into my daily dietary routine. I feel more energetic, lost 14 pounds, and don’t have those sugar cravings or grab food that contain empty calories. My cholesterol level decreased by 29% and are within normal healthy limits. My PCP called me last night and said, “Wow, I don’t know what you did, but all I can say is keeping doing exactly what you are doing!”