Ask the Patch Pro: Dietitian Takes Your Questions

It's time for another edition of Ask the Patch Pro, where each week readers interact with professionals by asking questions on a wide variety of topics. Our team of experts stop in to help you out and answer your questions.

This week, Patch is teaming up with Shital Mehta, a clinical dietitian at SSM St. Joseph Health center where she works as an outpatient clinical dietitian. 

She has a Master’s degree in Nutrition and health metabolism from Boston University and weight management certification through Academy of Nutrition and dietetics. She has more than 15 years of experience working with wide variety of clientele needing to improve their chronic medical conditions like diabetes, high blood pressure, celiac disease, heart disease, cancer etc. to weight management to overall general health.

She has worked with varied age groups from kids as young as 7 year old to
elderly population.

More about registered dietitians, from SSM:

Registered dietitians are experts on food and nutrition who have met the criteria from the Committee of Dietetic Registration of the American Dietetic Association. They are available to help with nutritional needs relating to cancer, diabetes, allergies, Celiac disease, liver disorders, hypertension, weight management, pediatric nutrition and more.