Excess Weight & Weight Gain in Parkinson's
12 pm PT - 25 Nov 2025
Included in Parkinson's School
Fresh & Relevant Stuff
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Kelly Morrow, RD
Kelly Morrow, MS, RDN, FAND is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and Fellow of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. She has been on the faculty at Bastyr University since 2002 where she has supervised clinical rotations at the Bastyr Center for Natural Health and taught in the Departments of Nutrition and Exercise Science, Naturopathic Medicine, Midwifery and Acupuncture and East Asian Medicine. Kelly has been a private practice since 2000 and has previously worked at Evergreen Hospital in radiation oncology, the Booth Gardner Parkinson’s Center and in Community Health Promotions.
As a nutrition educator, Kelly helps people learn about how food affects health. As a nutrition counselor, she helps people with motivation and making sustainable changes while supporting personal preferences, lifestyle, and culture. Kelly uses an integrative, body positive, gender affirming and non-diet approach.
Diet & Parkinson Symptom Management
Delicious Medicine?
Previously Recorded Classes
An overview of strategic eating ideas that pack in the nutrition, minimize the protein, increase fiber, phytonutrients, and all that other good stuff...
Healthy Eating Tips
Every course is filled with practical tips to make healthy food more available.
Does Meat Need to Go?
Does the type of meat matter? What animal it was from? The conditions in which the animal was raised? What it was fed? How the meat was processed, stored, or prepared?
Meal and Medication Timing
Sometimes, it doesn't matter what you eat. For others, their medication stops working for the rest of the day as soon as they have their first bolus of protein.
Learn the ins and outs of the balancing act!
Breakfast - Lunch - Dinner Ideas
These are the classes from the past few months:
"Parkinson PRO Diet""
Do What the Successful People are Doing
The "Positive Deviance" model is a method of doing research where we describe the behaviors common to those doing unusually well.
For the past 10 years, Dr. Mischley has been collecting data on the foods people eat, how often they eat them, food behaviors, as well as packaging and storage systems, and the relationship between these choices and Parkinson symptom severity over time.
Dietary Implementation Ideas Series
There are millions of options for millions of people. Let's explore what's available, what is healthy, what to avoid, and how to know when you're on the right path?
The recommendations presented here are based on the results of the www.MVP-Study.com.
Curriculum
- 2024 Live Agenda
- Excess Weight in Parkinson's - Live Session: 25 Nov 2024 - 12 pm PT
- Healthy Holidays
- Balancing Proetein Intake and Levodopa - Jan 2024 (42:45)
- Cooking on a Budget - June 2023 (72:05)
- Brain Food (60:26)
- Meal Prep- Cook Once, Eat for Multiple Meals (64:23)
- Smart Bites: Energizing PRO Snacks - Oct 2024 (49:28)
- PRO Diet Breakfast Ideas - 2024 (60:54)
- PRO Diet Lunch Ideas - 2024 (58:51)
- PRO Diet Dinner Ideas- 2024 (67:23)
- Healthy Convenience Foods - Jun 2023 (62:55)
- Diet and Bone Health in Parkinson's - Aug 2024 (21:10)
- Heartburn, Reflux, & GERD Considerations in Parkinson's - June 2024 (63:37)
- Bloating and Constipation in Parkinson's - Feb 2024 (52:57)
- Dietary Suggestions for Weight Gain in Parkinson's - Slides - Apr 2024
- Add Spice to Your Life - May 2023 (72:36)
- Sugar, Sweets, and Treats (55:22)
- One Pot Meals (61:50)
- 2025 Live Agenda