Torie Silverstone, MS, RDN, CSP

Torie is an experienced and enthusiastic registered dietitian nutritionist with a particular focus on balancing the pursuit of health with the joys of life. Torie received her undergraduate and graduate degree in dietetics and human nutrition from the University of Northern Colorado and Colorado State University.

As a dietitian, Torie has completed rigorous education and training to meet requirements by the Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics to practice medical nutrition therapy. She is a nutrition expert in areas throughout the lifespan including pediatrics, adults, and pregnancy. She helps her clients get through the excess nutrition information available to follow fact-driven eating strategies to promote health.

Torie has experience working with individuals, families, and groups in hospital and outpatient clinic settings to target specific disease prevention and treatment, wellness, weight management, GI disorders, appetite changes, food allergies, and much more. Torie herself manages many food sensitivities and she has authored a cookbook for special diet modifications and continues to test more recipes, A Bite of Heaven: Gluten-free, Dairy-free, Egg-free, and Nut-free fuzed with conventional recipes to please the whole family.

Torie is also a board-certified specialist in pediatric nutrition (CSP) and has worked for a number of years at Children’s Hospital Colorado. As a registered dietitian, she manages infants and children with poor growth, picky eating, weight management, as well as complex childhood diseases that require special diets and/or tube feeding support. In addition, Torie is certified in food allergy management. Torie enjoys traveling to learn about the culture of food and lifestyles from other countries and loves bringing back unique and global ideas to promote health in her local communities. Torie provides individualized nutrition counseling through private practice locally in Colorado and nationally via Telehealth. She is experienced in creating individualized meal plans to target each client’s health goals and eating preferences. Visit her website and blog for more information, biteofheavendietitian.com

Areas of Expertise

• Creating a positive personal relationship with food
• General health and wellness
• Weight management
• Food Allergies
• Medical nutrition therapy for cardiovascular disease (hypertension, dyslipidemia, etc.)
• Medical nutrition therapy for diabetes and pre-diabetes
• Meal planning
• Recipe development and modification
• Nutrition support
• Celiac Disease
• Pregnancy
• Infant and child feeding stages and behaviors
• Family health and wellness
• Picky eating
• Growth and parenting
• Exercise and sports nutrition

License and Certification

• Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RD and RDN), Commission on Dietetic Registration
• Certified Specialist in Pediatric Nutrition, Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
• Certificate of training in food allergy management, Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

Publications and Presentations

• Expect Tips for Picky Eaters, Colorado Parent Magazine (2019)
• Presentation: Pureed by G-tube diet in the outpatient setting. Updates in Clinical Nutrition Conference Children’s Hospital (2017)
• Fox 31 Live News Segment: The Hidden Dangers of Sugar & Tips for Swaps (2017)
• Prenatal & Early Postnatal Influences on Infant Food Preferences: The influences of flavor exposure during the gestational, exclusive milk feeding, & later milk feeding plus weaning foods period. Early practices can increase acceptance of healthy foods and influence lifelong eating habits (2015)
• Cookbook: A Bite of Heaven Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free, Egg-Free, & Nut-Free Fused with Conventional Recipes to Please the Whole Family (2010)

Education

• Bachelor of Science in Dietetics, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO (2007-2010)
• Master of Science in Food Science and Human Nutrition, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO (2014-2015)
• Supervised Practice Dietetic Internship, University of Houston, Houston, TX (2011)