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NUTRITION SERVICESInformation and Registration: (858) 822-2236healthyeating.ucsd.eduClinical Dietician Appointment Scheduling: (619) 471-0420The Healing Foods Kitchen: The Healing Foods Kitchen offers cookingclasses that teach participants how to prepare easy and healthy recipes using foodsthat promote health and help fight disease. Classes include demonstration, discussionabout ingredients and cooking methods, tasting, recipes, and educational hand-outs.Class topics change every month. Registration is required by telephone or online.Monthly Nutrition Lectures: Monthly Nutrition Lectures are offered on twotopics: “Fighting Cancer with Your Fork” provides an overview of nourishing foodsessential for health and healing, and tips on how to incorporate these easily into yourlife; and “Nutrition During Cancer Treatment” focuses on managing treatment-relatednutrition and digestion challenges. These classes are free of charge.UCSD Healthy Eating Telephone Support Program: UCSD HealthyEating Telephone Support Program offers personalized coaching and support designedto help you adopt a diet that will promote health and fight disease. This program isfocused on long-term dietary behavior change and is particularly for patients who havecompleted initial therapy. It includes a dietary analysis and consultation, personalizedone-on-one telephone counseling, educational materials, self-monitoring tools, andrecipes. This program has a fee.Consultation with a Clinical Dietician: Consultation with a clinicaldietician is available for patients undergoing treatment and experiencing dietarychallenges including loss of appetite, nausea, difficulty swallowing, constipation,fatigue, and significant weight loss. There is a fee for consultation however manyinsurance plans reimburse for this service. A physician referral is required prior toscheduling an appointment.16