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Good Health requires a team.

Let me be your Chief Dietitian Officer.

About Me

Hello Friend,

I’m Eliana.

As a human, I wear many hats: a woman, a wife, a mother of two active children, a sister, a daughter, a friend.

Professionally, I am a Registered Dietitian whose desire is to help you reach your health goals while ensuring you are reaching them safely and sustainably.

Sometimes, this can be done with conventional dietary approaches and minor tweaks to lifestyle. Other times (more often than not, if I’m honest), this requires thinking outside of the box and trialing less mainstream dietary approaches.

Low carbohydrate diets, ketogenic diets, very low energy diets, time restricted eating, intermittent fasting, vegan diets, mediterranean diets - nothing is limits. And because you are so unique and individual, I tailor a dietary approach that is specific to your needs.

My goal is to help you find the most sustainable dietary approach that will help you improve your health, reverse your chronic disease and even put it into remission! Yes, this is actually attainable through changing the foods we eat and moving our bodies more often.

How powerful is that?!

We also take the time to look at your past medical history, stress, sleep, and physical activity as these all determine which dietary approach will be appropriate for you. But here is the problem: often we cannot do this alone.

A Team Approach

Reaching and maintaining good health requires a TEAM. This team starts with YOU as the CEO. Your doctor(s) plays the role of Chief Medical Officer: overseeing your overall health, adjusting medications, etc. What your doctor does not have the time or resources to do is help you with your diet. This is where I come in! I can help you adapt your diet to achieve the health goals you are looking for, while we work together with your doctor to adjust any mediations and continue to oversee your health.

I’m Eliana.  I’m a Registered Dietitian with an MSc.  A passionate one.  A knowledgeable one.

The knowledge comes from my years of training, plus years of unlearning, as well asking the question:

“What if...”

"What if there is more to diet and health than meets the eye?"

"What if dietary recommendations are not all they seem to be?"

My passion and curiosity...

interestingly, started when I felt uncomfortable teaching my patients certain diets just because I was told to. Even if there was limited evidence behind them. You see, these diets do not make sense to me; and in my clinical experience, my patients were not getting healthier from following these recommendations.

As I started to question different recommendations, I sadly learned about many behind-the-scenes influences on government health recommendations and even NGO recommendations from both the food and pharmaceutical industries.

Some might see my curiosity and questioning as rebellious, but I believe it is a requirement in today's society for holistic health.

And don’t you appreciate being able to make an educated decision on what you choose to eat?

I want to see my loved ones get better...

and be in good health.  I want my patients to get stronger, not weaker.

So it is time for me to share what I have discovered. And the best way to do that is to create an authentic and holistic nutritional approach for those who are ready to step it up in their lives.

I created Eat ;Different RD to help health-conscious, educated individuals like yourself - with all that I have.

By working with me... 

you get a genuinely educated coach who studies, tests and practices the best nutritional advice that exists - and tests it on herself and her family first!

My clients get outstanding and long-lasting results when they stick with me. The way we get there is by me guiding you through a tailor-made lifestyle and dietary approach designed for your specific lifestyle, condition, and life.

You succeed by doing the work with me.  The result is the healthiest version of you.  You become energetic, full of life, food educated, and possibly slimmer.

 

Contact:

Email: eliana@eatdifferentrd.com

Phone: +1.647.456.7952

Twitter:  @EatDifferentRD

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/eliana.witchell

Instagram: eatdifferentrd

Secure Fax: +1.855.325.9933

Speaking Engagements:

  • Webinar: Evidence-based Carbohydrate Restriction: Using this tool in a safe and effective manner” hosted by the BC Patient Safety and Quality Council and Institute of Health System Transformation and Sustainability, Sept 29, 2020; co-presented with Michelle Shepherd RD.

  • Webinar: “Evidence-based Carbohydrate Restriction: Using this tool in a safe and effective manner” hosted by the Institute for Personalized Therapeutic Nutrition on June 23, 2020; co-presented with Michelle Shepherd RD.

  • Webinar: “Evidence-based Carbohydrate Restriction: Using this tool in a safe and effective manner” hosted by the Consulting Dietitians Network through Dietitians of Canada, May 15, 2020; co-presented with Michelle Shepherd RD.

  • Webinar: “Therapeutic Nutrition: An emerging model for interdisciplinary collaboration” hosted by the Canadian Pharmacists Association on Nov 21, 2019; co-presented with Sean McKelvey, BSc(Pharm), RPh.

  • “A Dietitian’s Perspective of Carbohydrate Reduced Diets” presented at the Low Carb Real Food Show - Nov 3 2019, Vaughn, Ontario, Canada.

  • Therapeutic Low Carb Nutrition presented at Canadian Forces Base Trenton; Nov 2018, Trenton, Ontario, Canada.

  • Low Carb and Keto – A Dietitian’s Perspectivepresented at Canadian Association of Physician Assistants Conference; Oct 2018, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

  • Fasting presented to Ellis Park Medical; Oct. 2017, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

  • Common Nutrient Deficiencies [in Children]presented at Children’s Nutrition Conference; March 2017, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 

  • Is Sugar Making you Fat? presented at William Osler Health Center; March 2015; Brampton and Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada. 

Media Appearances:

1. Podcast: Dietitian Rehab with Doug Cook RDN. Episode 019, “Embracing a LCHF/Keto diet in nutrition practice. Click here to check it out.

2. Podcast: Low Carb Conversations with Jimmy Moore, Dietitian Cassie, and friends.  Episode 107. Click here to check it out!

Publications:

  1.   Rysdale, L., Witchell, E., Keller, H., Randall Simpson, J., Turfryer, M., McGibbon, K., et al. (2011). Parent perceptions of NutriSTEP® and nutrition risk screening in a sample of Ontario preschool children.   ICAN, 3(4):  197-204.  Availble at: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1941406411414292

  2. Sheeshka, J., O'Reilly, L., Bauman, J., Strano, M., & Witchell, E. (2011). Canadian Consumers’ Understanding of Information on Food Packages: An Exploratory Study. Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 43(4): supplement 1, pS7. Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1499404611001229

  3. Witchell, E., & Sheeshka, J. (2011). Socio-environmental factors influencing food behaviour. Comprehensive Biotechnology (Second Edition)Volume 4:775-780, Elsevier.  Online textbook chapter. Available at:  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780080885049003238

  4. Working Group & Aboriginal Cancer and Prevention Team. (2011). The Healthy Eating Guidelines for School Nutrition Programs – a Resource for First Nations Schools.Cancer Care Ontario. Available at: https://www.cancercareontario.ca/sites/ccocancercare/files/assets/ACCUSchoolFoodGuideline.pdf