Positive Nutrition

What is Positive Nutrition?

Positive Nutrition provides nutrition counseling and other services by a Registered and Licensed Dietitian. Clients meet with the dietitian to determine their counseling needs and may schedule further meetings as desired or appropriate. Clients may also register for a Positive Nutrition Plan for 6, 12, or 24 sessions. In many cases, Positive Nutrition is designed to be part of a multidisciplinary team, including physicians, medical specialists, psychiatrists/psychologists, social counselors, coaches, and/or personal trainers. This allows nutrition counseling to be more effective in overall health promotion and achievement of client goals. Clients may be referred to Positive Nutrition by other professionals, or individuals may contact Positive Nutrition independently.

Positive Nutrition utilizes office space in Marietta, GA, and occasionally provides home visits in Canton, Woodstock and surrounding areas.  Speaking engagements and group educations are also provided throughout the north metro Atlanta area and downtown as negotiated.

About the Dietitian

Julie C.H. Brake received her Master of Science in Food Science and Human Nutrition from the University of Florida. She is a Registered Dietitian with the Commission for Dietetic Registration and is licensed by the State of Georgia. In the past, she also received training as a lactation counselor.  Julie is a member of the national American Dietetic Association (ADA), the Sports, Cardiovascular, and Wellness Nutritionists (SCAN) Dietetic Practice Group, and a professional supporter of the Eating Disorder Information Network (EDIN) here in Atlanta.  She is also a board member of Supporting Others Achieve Recovery (SOAR), a non-profit organization providing eating disorder recovery advocacy resources in Atlanta.

Since receiving her degree, Julie has worked in community nutrition, clinical nutrition and private practice. She worked as a dietitian for the WIC program in North Central Florida and with the Obesity Prevention Program in Duval County, FL. She has experience working at St. Joseph's Hospital in Tampa, FL, with all types of patients, including pediatrics and clinical care. She also worked as part of a multidisciplinary team - including a medical doctor, psychologist, and physical therapist - in a weight management program.

In 2005, Julie started Positive Nutrition, a private practice providing nutrition services. Positive Nutrition was created with the goal of providing appropriate nutrition instruction to individuals and groups, specifically to prevent disordered eating.

Julie has conducted individual nutrition consultations as well as provided group nutrition educations and presentations. She specializes in family nutrition, disordered eating counseling, and "food coaching" for athletes. She has also been involved with providing nutrition education to students from elementary school through college.

Since relocating Positive Nutrition to metro Atlanta, Julie's goal is to help make the area residents healthier and happier. To keep up her clinical nutrition skills, she works as a PRN nutritionist at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish-Rite. She is also currently working on writing a book about nutrition.

Julie lives in Canton, GA, with her husband of nine years, their four-year-old son, and their one-year-old daughter.