Research Based Medical Nutrition Therapy:
At Illinois Dietitians, L.L.C., we follow the protocols and methods recommended by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Our medical nutrition therapy is research based.
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What is a Registered Dietitian?
- A registered dietitian (R.D.N. or R.D.) is the medical provider who is licensed by the state to use medical nutrition therapy in the prevention and treatment of conditions and diseases, such as obesity, diabetes, kidney disease, and heart disease.
- A registered dietitian will help you to create a healthy and delicious eating and lifestyle plan - not a fad diet that you cannot comply with for the long term - but a healthy plan that you can enjoy for the rest of your life.
- Everyone should have a registered dietitian on their team of regular health care providers. You should visit your registered dietitian at least once a year for a "nutrition and lifestyle check-up". During these visits your registered dietitian will help you to make your eating, lifestyle, and physical activity plan a healthy one.
- Creating a healthy eating plan, with the help of a registered dietitian, helps to prevent and treat many common conditions and diseases that are affected by nutrition, lifestyle, and physical activity choices, and helps you live a long, vigorous, independent, and healthy life.
- Healthy nutrition is good medicine, and when paired with healthy lifestyle habits, regular physical activity, and stress management, it forms the foundation upon which much of health and medicine rest.
- Form a working relationship with a registered dietitian. It's one of the best decisions that you will ever make!
Pre-Diabetes, Meditation, and Smoking Cessation Classes
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We offer Telehealth, phone and e-mail coaching.
For more information, please call or text us at 708-285-1347, e-mail us at emccarthyrd@aol.com, or send us a message through this website.
Physical Activity...
Get a minimum of 1 Hour of
Moderate Physical Activity
Every Day of the Week
For more information, please call or text us at 708-285-1347, e-mail us at emccarthyrd@aol.com, or message us through this website.
We Offer Telehealth Services.
Contact Us To Make An Appointment.
We help you to follow and adhere to a healthy eating plan as you move through your outpatient program.
At Illinois Dietitians, L.L.C., we take into consideration your physical and emotional needs as we gently and slowly help you to move into a health lifestyle. We help you to plan a healthy lifestyle plan, a delicious eating plan, and a regular physical activity program that is comfortable for you. We help you to emotionally move away from an unhealthy lifestyle that can feel overwhelming and depressing, and into one that is healthy, emotionally freeing, and satisfying.
In striving to help you, we help to answer questions and thoughts like these...
"Can we create a lifestyle, eating, physical activity, and stress reduction plan that is healthy, delicious, satisfying, and one that I can follow throughout my lifetime?"
"How can I lose weight comfortably, and maintain a healthy weight throughout my life?"
"Can you help me with my eating disorder? I don't feel well, and I need an understanding R.D. to help me though this."
"How can I control my diabetes by making a few changes in my eating plan?"
"How can I lower the amount of diabetes medications and insulin that I am taking by making a few changes in my eating plan?"
"I really want to quit smoking. Can you help me to quit?"
"I am a caregiver. I feel tired, burnt out, depressed, and hopeless. Can you help me to learn how to take care of myself so that my loved one and I move ourselves back into a life of health?"
At Illinois Dietitians L.L.C. ...
We use nutrition, lifestyle, and physical activity choices to help you attain and maintain optimal health, and to prevent and treat conditions and diseases.
We practice whole person wellness that takes into consideration your physical and emotional health.
Illinois Dietitians, L.L.C.
Discounts on Our Services...
We offer a 15% discount on our fees to patients who pay us out of pocket and then send the insurance form to the insurance company.
Caregiver's Health and Nutrition
At Illinois Dietitians L.L.C., caregivers have a special place in our hearts. In the process of caring for those in need, caregivers often ignore their own nutritional, physical and emotional needs. We offer support and offer classes that focus on the lifestyle, nutritional, physical, and emotional needs of caregivers.
When you need help, we are there for you...
Eat healthy, natural, organic, wild food.
Healthy Nutrition, Lifestyle, and Physical Activity Counseling
Nutrition, Lifestyle, and Physical Activity for a Healthy Immune System
Pre-Diabetes, Diabetes, and Diabetes Prevention Classes
Heart Disease, including Disordered Lipids and Hypertension
Food Intolerances and Allergies
Cancer Prevention and Treatment
Celiac Disease, Irritable Bowel, Other GI Disorders, Lactose Intolerance
Autoimmune Disorders, such as M.S. and R.A.
Nutrition for Eye Health - Macular Degeneration
Nutrition, Lifestyle, and Physical Activity Choices for Healthy Skin
Disordered Eating
Nutrition for Depression
Memory Preservation Nutrition, including Alzheimer's and Other Dementia's
Caregiver's Health and Nutrition
Meditation Classes - Stress Management
Smoking Cessation Classes
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Insurance Co-Pays and Deductibles...
It is the patient's responsibility to contact their insurance company and to know their insurance coverage. It is not the responsibility of the provider.
Co-Pays and deductibles are the responsibility of the patient and must be paid in full at the time of service.
Stress Management - Meditation Classes
At Illinois Dietitians, L.L.C., we understand that life can be stressful. We offer individual and group meditation and stress reduction classes that help to lower your stress level.
Through the use of meditation, stress management techniques, healthy nutrition, physical activity, and lifestyle counseling, we help to make your life healthy calm, and emotionally satisfying.
For more information, please call or text us at 708-285-1347, e-mail us at emccarthyrd@aol.com, or send us a message through this website.
My Dietitian Says...
Regular Hand Washing...
- Always wash your hands before touching food.
- When Dining Out... It's a good idea to wash your hands before eating. Hand washing is key to preventing the transmission of disease. Germs travel from surfaces that you have touched to the food that you eat. Washing your hands is a simple action that has wonderful health benefits. While in the lavatory, use a clean paper towel to turn off the faucet and to open the door when leaving. These surfaces are often forgotten by the cleaning crew, and may harbor disease causing organisms - not something that you want to bring to the table with you!
Eileen Hourihan McCarthy is a recognized Freedom From Smoking Cessation Facilitator with the American Lung Association. We offer a Smoking Cessation program that follows the standards established by the American Lung Association.
Our program is a structured program that is individual or group based, and achieves it's objectives through learning life skills that promote smoking cessation and a healthy lifestyle. The program is comprised of 8 sessions over 7 weeks.
Pre-Diabetes, Diabetes Prevention Program
We offer a Pre-Diabetes Prevention - Lifestyle Change Program that follows the standards established by the Diabetes Prevention Recognition Program, at the Centers for Disease Control.
We offer a structured lifestyle change program that can be individual or group based, and achieves its objectives through learning life skills that promote healthy eating, weight loss, lifestyle change, and regular physical activity habits.
Food Intolerances and Allergies
We determine foods that you react to and help you to make a healthy eating plan that will keep you healthy for life.
You can schedule your own appointment here -
MyDietitianSays®
Eileen Hourihan McCarthy, M.F.N., B.S., B.A., R.D.N., L.D.N., C.P.T., C.M.T.
Director, Registered Dietitian, Lifestyle Coach (DTTAC), Facilitator (ALA), Certified Personal Trainer, (NASM), Certified Meditation Teacher, Lecturer, Writer, Photographer/Artist, Covid-19 Contact Tracer (Johns Hopkins University)
Illinois Dietitians, L.L.C.
The Medical Arts Building
715 Lake Street, Suite 220
Oak Park, Illinois 60301
And, Illinois Dietitians, L.L.C. is also located in southwestern Michigan
Phone: 708-285-1347
Some of the Services We Offer are...
General Nutrition and Wellness:
Medical Nutrition Therapy:
- Diabetes, Pre-Diabetes, and the Metabolic Syndrome
- Cardiovascular Disease, including hypertension, high LDL cholesterol, high triglycerides, low HDL cholesterol, heart failure
- Celiac Disease, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, and other gastrointestinal diseases
- Lactose Intolerance
- Food Intolerances and Allergies
- ADD, ADHD
- Autoimmune Disorders, such as Rheumatoid Arthritis and Multiple Sclerosis
- Osteoporosis and Osteopenia
- PCOS
- Memory Preservation Nutrition, including Alzheimer's Disease and other dementia's
- Nutrition for Depression
- Nutrition for Macular Degeneration
- Nutrition for Restless Legs Syndrome
- Caregiver's Health and Nutrition
- Certified Personal Trainer Services