Nutrition

General Nutrition & SCI-Specific Guidance

  • Mount Sinai SCI Nutrition Guide: Our team at The Spinal Cord Injury Research Center have created a comprehensive guide of Nutrition resources for guidance and advice on how to best manage your nutrition and health after SCI.
  • Everyday Nutrition for Persons with SCI: Northwest Regional Spinal Cord Injury System present the latest American Dietetic Association nutrition recommendations for persons with SCI.
  • Eat Well, Live Well, with Spinal Cord Injury: Funded by the Paralyzed Veterans of America, Eat Well, Live Well with Spinal Cord Injury is a comprehensive, practical nutritional guide written specifically for individuals with spinal cord injuries, as well as their families, friends, caregivers, health and medical professionals.
  • Living with SCI Nutrition: Spinal Cord Injury BC guide to nutrition, includes tips on making the right food and beverage choices can help you stay healthy and prevent complications.
  • Nutrition Tips Series: Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation Nutrition Tips Video Series
  • Paralysis Nutrition: A key part of living a full and healthy life is maintaining proper nutrition to decrease the risk for infections, pressure sores and fatigue. Take a look at Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation tips and understand the basics of eating right.
  • SCI Nutrition, Dietary and Weight Management: United Spinal Association Nutrition Help Desk resources for persons with SCI
  • The Miami Project Diet and Nutrition: Offer many tips that can be useful in developing a more healthy diet.

Weight Management & Healthy Eating

  • EatRight® Weight Management Program: This weight management program,  produced by the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, is designed for individuals  with spinal cord injury, and disease. EatRight is a 12 week program. There is workbook and video that  guides you through the weekly lessons.
  • Eat This, Not That: Website that helps you understand and navigate everyday food choices toward healthier eating and weight loss.
  • The Paralysis Nutrition Cookbook: Registered dietitian and proud #quadwife Fatimah Fakhoury shows that healthy eating doesn’t have to mean giving up on favorite foods! In her new cooking book you will find 101 recipes to help you lose weight and improve bowel health for individuals with spinal cord injuries.

Cooking & Adaptive Tools

  • Adaptive Cooking Tools: Accessible Chef was able to test out adaptive cooking tools.  Resources are divided into tools that make the physical aspects of cooking easier, tools that are safer for those with disabilities to operate, and tools that assist with the cognitive skills necessary for cooking.
  • Helpful Tools for Cooking When You Have a Spinal Cord Injury: Created by Craig Hospital and the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation, this video highlights functional tools or adaptive equipment available for people with hand weakness who would like to gain more independence in their daily activities.

Healthy Eating Apps & Food Resources

  • Fooducate: Track what you eat and your activities to see your progress and achieve your goals and  scan nutrition labels for a quick assessment of how healthy something really is. (free on iOS and Android)
  • Plentiful: A free app, developed by City Harvest, you can find food pantries near you and reserve a time to pick up food without waiting in any lines.
  • MyPlate: Nutrition guide and app published by the USDA Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion. Use the Start Simple with MyPlate mobile app to pick daily food goals, see real-time progress, and earn fun badges along the way.
  • Nutrition.gov:  Healthy recipes collection from the department of agriculture.
  • The Basics of the Nutrition Facts Label: A quick guide to reading the Nutrition Facts label from EatRight.org
  • MyPlate Kitchen: Provides recipes and resources to support building healthy and budget-friendly meals. MyPlate Kitchen includes recipes from the USDA Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) programs including the Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion (CNPP) and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).

Fast Food & Restaurant Nutrition

Food Accessibility & Community Programs

  • Fresh Food Box: GrowNYC’s Fresh Food Box Program is a food access initiative that enables under-served communities to purchase fresh, healthy, and primarily regionally grown produce well below traditional retail prices.
  • Greenmarket Farmers Markets: Grow NYC Food Access Initiatives get fruits and vegetables where they are most needed in NYC. Visit their website to find your local farmers market.

Specialized Nutrition Support

  • Accessible Wellness: Jackie is a Registered Dietitian who does virtual 1:1 nutrition counselling and empowers and motivates adults and children with disabilities to live healthy and active lifestyles and improve quality of life through nutrition.
  • Paralysis Nutrition: Registered dietitian Fatimah Fakhoury nutrition program empowers and educates people with paralysis to make healthier food choices, so they can regain control of their weight and improve bowel issues.

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