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A Registered Dietitian is your personal nutrition expert—here to provide evidence-based, customized support that helps you make confident food choices and create lasting lifestyle changes. Whether your top priority is weight loss, improving health conditions, or optimizing overall wellness, a registered dietitian works with you one-on-one to build a plan that fits your life and delivers results.

 

Why Should I See a Registered Dietitian?
  • Get personalized, results-driven weight-loss support: Your registered dietitian will help you create a sustainable plan for healthy weight loss—and provide ongoing accountability, motivation, and adjustments as your needs evolve.
  • Support for healthy weight gain and weight maintenance: Guidance tailored to your specific goals, whether you're looking to build strength, maintain progress, or adjust to new health needs.
  • Reach your wellness goals with expert, science-backed coaching: Benefit from targeted strategies designed to help you feel better, build healthier habits, and fuel your body properly.
  • Manage food allergies, sensitivities, and intolerances: Learn how to modify meals without sacrificing flavor or nutrition.
  • Menu planning and recipe guidance: Practical, easy-to-follow plans that keep you on track—at home, work, or on the go.
  • Sports nutrition and fueling education: Optimize performance and energy with balanced, athlete-focused nutrition.
  • Expert support for managing medical conditions, including:
    • Cholesterol
    • Triglycerides
    • Gout
    • High Blood Pressure
    • Anemia
    • Celiac Disease
    • Pre-Diabetes
    • Chronic Kidney Disease
 
Who Is Eligible?

The registered dietitian nutrition benefits are available to YourChoice Medical Plan members, including children.

 
How Does It Work?
  • No copay for the first 5 visits each year (under the Give Me Five program)
  • No referral needed
  • No authorization or precertification required
  • The Manatee YourChoice Medical Plan covers up to 20 visits per calendar year ($30 co-pay applies after the first 5 visits)  

 

Meet our Registered Dietitians:

Marcus Harris, RDN/LDN, CDCES, NPTI

Registered Dietitian

Email: mharris@premierdietetics.com

Marcus, a Tampa native and U.S. Navy Veteran, is passionate about health and wellness. He has a strong connection to Manatee County, having contracted with Manatee YourChoice for five years as a registered dietitian, fitness instructor, and personal trainer.  Marcus joined the county as a Diabetes and Nutrition Educator but has since returned as a contractor with Manatee YourChoice, focusing exclusively on nutrition.

Specializes in:

  • Diabetes Care and Education: Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist (Level 2)
  • Nutrition and Dietetics: B.A. in Nutrition and Dietetics; Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN), Licensed Dietitian Nutritionist (LDN)
  • Weight Management: Certificate in Adult Weight Management
  • Body Transformation: 10X Champion and Professional Drug-Tested Bodybuilder
  • Performance Nutrition: Recognized Subject Matter Expert
Marcus Harris

Natalia Garcia, RDN, LDN, IFNCP, CISSN, CHWC, MB-EAT-C

Registered Dietitian/YourChoice Health Coach

Natalia Garcia is a Registered Dietitian/Licensed Nutritionist, Board-Certified Integrative and Functional Nutrition Practitioner, and Certified Health & Wellness Coach dedicated to helping men and women heal from the inside out. Her approach goes beyond surface-level changes, guiding individuals to transform their lives by addressing the thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that shape their overall well-being.

Natalia’s coaching focuses on creating balance through sustainable habits, mindset shifts, and effective stress management; empowering her clients to step into the greatest expression of themselves, both for their own lives and in how they show up for others.

A Mindfulness-Based Eating & Living Awareness Instructor, Well Nourished Life Coach, and Certified Sports Nutritionist, Natalia brings a deeply personalized and compassionate approach to every client she serves. She has been featured on ABC7 and is also a corporate wellness speaker, inspiring individuals and organizations to build healthier, more aligned, and lasting lifestyles.

Specializes in:

  • Adult and adolescent weight management
  • Nutrition Deficiencies
  • Pre-diabetes
  • Hormonal Imbalances
  • Supplementation guidance
  • Body composition, sports and performance nutrition
  • Motivation, empowerment and accountability – Certified Health and Wellness Coach (CHWC)
  • Arthritis, Chronic Inflammation and Autoimmune Conditions
  • Gastrointestinal disorders
  • Food allergies, intolerances, sensitivities including: Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), Gastric Reflux Disease (GERD)
  • Vegetarian and vegan nutrition
 
Natalia Garcia

Florey Miller, MS, RD/N

Registered Dietitian

Florey has been a registered dietitian since 1994 and brings 25 years of experience as a certified diabetes care and education specialist.  From 2009 to 2022, she served as the diabetes educator for the YourChoice Health Plan.  Her extensive background includes roles as a clinical dietitian at Blake Medical Center, a diabetes educator at Doctors Hospital, and running a private practice in a cooking school.  Florey is back to support YourChoice Health Plan members and their families in achieving better health through engaging food experiences, cooking, and nutrition education.  Florey is available both in person and virtually.

Florey specializes in:

  • Diabetes Care
  • Weight Management
  • Meal Planning
  • Cooking and Recipe Resources
  • General Nutrition Advice
Florey Miller

Andreia Silva, RDN, MPH

Registered Dietitian

Contact: dietitian.andreia@gmail.com
 
Specializes in:
  • Adult and Adolescent Weight Management
  • Bariatric Nutrition (pre- and post-surgery)
  • Cardiac Rehab
  • Diabetes Management
  • Prevention and Wellness
  • Sports Nutrition
  • Vegetarian and Vegan Nutrition
Andreia Silva

LuAnne Howard, MS, RD, CSSD, LDN, CDE

Registered Dietitian

2424 Manatee Ave. W, Suite 105
Bradenton, FL 34205

Contact: Hlphoward1@aol.com

Specializes in:

  • Diabetes Management (Certified Diabetes Educator)
  • Sports Nutrition (Board Certified Specialist)
  • Eating Disorders
  • Weight Management
  • Chronic Disease Management
  • Prevention and Wellness
  • Healthy Pregnancy
  • Bariatric Nutrition (pre and post surgery)
LuAnne Howard

Paulette Klostreich, RDN, LDN, CLT

Registered Dietitian

Available via Telehealth

Specializes in:

  • Functional nutrition
  • Gastrointestinal disorders
  • Weight loss
  • Endocrine issues
  • Wellness
  • Supplement reviews
  • Acne
  • Disorders of inflammation

 

Paulette Klostreich