Barbara’s “philosophy of practice” – sent to new
and prospective clients
WHY DO YOU NEED A NUTRITIONIST? “Because maybe it’s what you’re eating and not
what’s eating you.”
You want to look and feel your best both physically and
emotionally, and yet you do not. Or, You feel wonderful and you want to prevent
the problems of aging. You may have been everywhere, or seen everyone, and
tried every drug, every therapy, and every quick fix diet store that treats
everyone the same. You even have changed your diet, and bought supplements off
the shelf. Still, you are not feeling better, or you are not as optimally
healthy, fit, or slim, as you want to be. You are reading about nutrition and
are confused by the contradictions. You need someone Licensed and Board
Certified as a Clinical Nutritionist to make sense of it all, and to pull
together all your health information into a plan of individualized foods and
supplements that addresses your personal health goals. That is what Barbara
Zeitlin Kravets, CCN LDN can do. You are not alone in wanting this. Studies
tell us that 30% of Americans use alternative and complementary health care.
Nutrition is almost always involved because it works. You restore better and
faster.
WHY CHOOSE BARBARA ZEITLIN KRAVETS, CCN, LDN? “Because she is qualified, and has the skills and
the experience.”
Barbara Zeitlin Kravets is a Phi Beta Kappa, Summa cum
Laude, graduate of Northwestern University, a Rhodes Scholar Candidate, and a
Licensed and Board Certified Clinical Nutritionist, licensed to do Medical
Nutrition Therapy, who has been in private practice for 43 years. She is the
former Director of Nutrition Outreach Services for American International
Hospital, the Co-drafter of two Illinois Laws, which license both nutritionists
and dietitians, and a former Governor appointee to the State Board that
oversees this licensing. She is the former Director of Nutrition for the
country’s then largest doctor’s vitamin company. She was the Director of
Nutrition for all 15 Fruitful Yield/Here’s Health stores, and is now the
Director of Nutrition to medical clinics, health food stores and the Deerfield
Multiplex health and fitness club.. Barbara is a nationally known speaker, on
radio and TV, a published author of peer reviewed journal articles, helps write
the national nutritionist credentialing exam, and has been nominated repeatedly
by Who’s Who. She is the editor of The NutritionNews © internationally
distributed, cutting edge, peer reviewed, journal abstract, email nutrition
newsletter.
WHAT DO CLIENTS SAY ABOUT BARBARA ZEITLIN KRAVETS, CCN,
LDN AS A PERSON?
“My sessions with
Barbara were educational...”
“...She was aware of the realities of my stress filled
lifestyle...”
“...I really felt cared for...”
“...And it worked...I feel so much better now!”
HOW DOES BARBARA ZEITLIN KRAVETS, CCN, LDN WORK WITH ME? “She takes time to listen; no two people are the
same.”
Her initial consultation begins with hearing your health
history, and interpreting your laboratory data, if any exists. She knows if she
listens well, you will ask her not only the right questions, but also give her
many of the right answers. Answers for which other health care practitioners
never may have taken the time, or may have dismissed. Perhaps it is her degree
in clinical psychology that guides her to take the time to listen.
The First
Session: an individualized, formal written
program is provided to you. Because, “no one size fits all”, Barbara will
consider many factors in planning your program, such as: should you be on a
carbohydrate or protein dominant diet; is a low-fat diet appropriate; what is
your blood type; what is your activity level; how often do you eat out; do you
have food allergies or hypersensitivities? She will provide you with the most
current research in support of her recommendations.
Free weekly email nutrition newsletter. As long as you are her client, you will receive,
at no charge, The NutritionNews
©, an internationally distributed, weekly
email nutrition newsletter.
For those who are not her clients, but want this
cutting edge, peer reviewed, journal abstract, email news letter, The
NutritionNews © is available by subscription. Contact Barbara for details.
Barbara will help you plan menus, recipes, and eating out
choices to fit your busy life style. No matter how great the theory looks on
paper, the question is, “all right then, what will I eat for dinner. A family
member is an insulin dependent diabetic, and she understands about meal
planning and eating out concerns. She knows what is available in the health
food and grocery stores in terms of both foods and supplements. If you need a
shopping trip, that is also available. She makes no commission on any health
food products sold.
If needed, Barbara will suggest new lab work. Her expertise
is in the planning and the functional nutritional interpretation of, routine or
highly complex and far-reaching, laboratory tests. Perhaps it is the dozens of
hours a week she spends on the Internet researching medical and nutrition
journals that allows her to do this so well. It is not necessary, however, for
you to have a scrap of lab work for a beneficial consultation.
Follow Up Sessions:
the purpose is to let you ask questions and for Barbara to motivate, monitor
and refocus the programs where ever it is necessary.
She sells no supplements in her office, but uses her
experience to know, compare and choose the very best supplements and foods for
you from the vast array available. Barbara will tell you what to take, where to
get them, when to take them, and why.
WHOM DOES BARBARA ZEITLIN KRAVETS, CCN, LDN SEE? “Everyone.”
She counsels couples wishing to conceive children, women
during their pregnancies, brand new babies, children, adults and families of
all ages and with all health goals – and cats and dogs.
She has great expertise with: weight, allergies,
inflammatory conditions, cancer, gastrointestinal health, fatigue,
cardiovascular health, the whole endocrine system, the relationship of food to
mind, mood, memory, and behavior in children and adults, and certainly low
blood sugar, type 1 and 2 diabetes, and why eating like the newspapers tell
you, will make you fat, especially around the belly.
DOES BARBARA ZEITLIN KRAVETS CCN, LDN HAVE OUTREACH TO
OTHER SPECIALISTS? “She is a one-person
holistic clinic with outreach to diverse health professionals: exercise,
medical, chiropractic, acupuncture, emotional, and dental.”
But, of course, you do not need to go to any doctor other
than the one with whom you are currently working. She works with people who are
both on and off medicines, those under doctor’s care and those undergoing
serious medical interventions.
WHY CHOOSE BARBARA ZEITLIN KRAVETS, CCN, LDN? Some of you may have been born permanently, “tall
and thin and blond”, and Barbara admires and envies you. She, however, has to
work on her health, weight and special food requirements.
“I understand the challenges this presents. But I know it
can be done. 43 years of experience convince me of this. Your own health improvement
will convince you. Many promise quick change. For that you only need look to
the next infomercial. But long-term improvements are what count, and this kind
of lasting health is my goal for you. I know that change often is not easy and
that keeping or regaining your health is a process.”
So why choose Barbara Zeitlin Kravets, CCN, LDN? Because she
epitomizes the best of the following statement: “They don’t care how much you
know until they know how much you care.”
DISCLAIMER FOR BARBARA ZEITLIN KRAVETS, CCN LDN
My name is Barbara Zeitlin Kravets, I am a Certified
Clinical Nutritionist, (CCN), a Licensed Dietitian Nutritionist, (LDN),
licensed to do Medical Nutrition Therapy, and a former department head of a
hospital.
But I am not a doctor. I do not diagnose, treat, prescribe,
or prevent. I do not work with drugs. I do not put anybody on or off medicine.
Any suggestions that I make to you, your doctor must review to make sure that
he/she approves medically of anything I have suggested nutritionally. I do not
relate to disease. I only relate to health. I practice under the Dietetic and
Nutrition Services Practice Act, Public Law 92-064. This law allows me, amongst
other abilities, to practice medical nutrition therapy and to "deal with
oral dietary needs for individuals and groups. Activities shall relate to the
metabolism of food and the requirement for nutrients, including dietary
supplements for growth, development, maintenance, or attainment of optimal
health." I practice under the Proxmire Amendment, which allows me to
discuss with you foods and food components for special dietary needs. I
may tell you of the physiological properties of these foods and their components
so long as the information is factual and not misleading. By so doing, a food
is not converted into a drug. I confine myself to practicing within the law.
I, Barbara Zeitlin Kravets, CCN LDN, will focus strongly on
what you are just about to tell me, so strongly that I may appear to be
interruptive, for which I apologize up front.
As long as our appointment may seem up front, I know from
experience that I will not be able to answer all of your health goals in one
session and you will leave today with questions not answered. Please do not be
frustrated, because that is why we have follow-up consultations. Eventually I
will tune in on every one of your health goals; although I may lack the skills to
be able to answer them, it will not be from lack of trying. Lastly, the phone
may ring and I may be called away to a telephone call. This, too, is
interruptive, and again I apologize, but it does not come out of your time.
As far as records of my protocols, suggestions, and phone
consults, I have constructed my practice so that you have in your possession
all information at all times: 1) I send you the initial protocol, diet and supplement
suggestions, in writing , and you take your own notes at each follow up
consultation. I answer your emails, by email, so you have those, too. If you
call me between appointments, you take notes on our conversation. Please keep a
copy of this disclaimer and the Dear Client letter. Also, please keep a
copy of lab work you or your doctors send to me.
In this way there are no records that I have that you do not
have already and all the time.
I practice under all the HIPAA guidelines. (Information
available upon request.)
Clients to sign:
I, the client, understand that Barbara Zeitlin Kravets, CCN
LDN is not a doctor, that she does not diagnose, treat, or prescribe. I will be
given the opportunity to ask questions and have been told that my doctor must approve
of this protocol before it can be started.
I, the client, understand that many people have benefited
from this type of program, but that in spite of best efforts, this may not be
the case with me. I, the client, may discontinue the program at any time I
wish, but even if dissatisfaction should include physical or emotional injury, in
consideration of receiving from Barbara Zeitlin Kravets, CCN LDN the above
protocol, I will hold Barbara Zeitlin Kravets, CCN LDN blameless and neither I
nor my family, nor my designates, can expect to receive any financial
compensation for such injury.
