Internal Medicine of Southwest Florida is proud to offer state of the art dietary management on site.

Patients who can benefit from this service include: persons who are obese, overweight, diabetic, or have cholesterol/triglyceride disorders.  Physician supervised dietitian counseling is often a Medicare covered service (as well as other 3rd party insurance payers).

For the past several months Marcy Russo, licensed Dietitian and Certified Diabetic Educator, has been seeing our patients for dietary counseling.  She has extensive experience and we are proud to have her on “our team”.

We are approaching dietary management scientifically using various innovative methods.  One such method is our metabolic rate machine which allows us to prescribe the proper caloric diet.  Proper weight management is a recognized means of improving a person’s blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol levels.  Being overweight and having abnormal blood sugar and cholesterol metabolism is highly linked to premature vascular disease including: heart attack, stroke, erectile dysfunction, and leg artery insufficiency.

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IMSWF is very excited to offer a scientifically valid method of determining your caloric needs.  This will allow us to prescribe very specific caloric diets to help you lose weight. We feel your physician is most qualified to assist in weight loss and control.  We can also follow recommended changes to see how the recommendations impact a patients metabolic rate.  This may allow further refinement in diet and exercise recommendations to help patient achieve weight goals. We use the ReeVue Indirect Calorimeter by Korr.  Patients should prepare for the test by avoiding eating a meal 4 hours before the test, avoid exercising on the day of the test, avoid the use of stimulants such as caffeine on the day of the test.

Initial Nutrition package:  $149  (At large discount to normal $218.50 value!)
 
One hour dedicated to the following services:
 
Revue Metabolic Measurement (breathing test to measure your calorie expenditure)- $80 value
 
% Body fat analysis weight measurement TANITA - $8.50 value
 
Dietitian services including Anthropometric measurements, body mass calculation, blood pressure measurement, finger glucose stick - to screen for metabolic syndrome; Nutrient analysis of diet- individual to provide food diary ahead of visit- Over $130 value.