This week 8th-12th June is officially DIETITIANS WEEK. Unfortunately that doesn’t mean a week off for us hard-working dietitian’s. Maybe I should suggest that! Instead many departments and dietitians around the UK are taking the opportunity to work even harder and put on special events to celebrate and highlight dietitians. There are also twitter chats
Dietitians’ Week: A snapshot of my life as a dietitian. Read More »
Chicken pox has struck our house this week. Hence my quietness on the blog. It’s been a full on week with very little sleep. The poor J-boy is pretty much covered with spots and managed to get quite a bad dose of the pox with high temperatures to boot. He has not been a happy
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A lot of people would like to live in the Mediterranean. The weather is warmer than the UK, the landscape goes from rugged, to rural to beautiful beaches and it often feels more relaxed. That relaxed, warm lifestyle also brings benefits for food. The Med diet is well researched and known to have benefits for
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There is a difference between an eating disorder and disordered eating, but it is hard to distinguish. Just because a person has a pre-occupation with food, shape and weight, does not mean that have an eating disorder. For lots of people that can come as a relief. You can have some of the signs and
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Gluten has been a pretty hot topic recently. I feel quite sorry for this poor protein which actually does some pretty amazing things to our food. I often come across people who have cut it out of their diet but actually it wasn’t gluten that was the culprit…. and then also people having a reaction
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This week I was quoted on the BBC News Website in an article about a new way of cooking and eating rice to shave off the calories. The researchers found that adding 1 tsp coconut oil to the rice as it boils and then cooling it for 12 hours reduced the calories by 60%. The
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We are all being encouraged to eat and drink less sugar, something that I completely agree with. However I’m finding that people are getting increasingly confused with what foods contain sugar and which don’t. The recent WHO and SACN recommendations are that we limit free sugars to 5%. Dried fruit is often seen as less
Is dried fruit really bad for you? Read More »
When most people think about eating disorders the image of a low weight person who restricts their food intake comes to mind. Anorexia Nervosa is the most commonly talked about and known about eating disorder. However there are other kinds. I also work with people who suffer from Bulimia Nervosa, binge eating disorder and a
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I’m so rock and roll that at the end of January I sat on my laptop and attended a Fbre Symptosium. Yes really. You can see why I don’t have many friends 😉 One thing that struck me was how tricky it can be to achieve the fibre recommendations unless you eat uber healthily and
30g Fibre a day – can we fix it? Read More »
I work in the topsy turvy world that is eating disorders. Most of the media focus, food manufacturers, shops and nutrition business is on how to lose weight…. whilst I work with people on how to gain or maintain their weight. Gaining weight may sound like it is easy to do… but it often isn’t. You
Boosting your nutritional intake – the healthy way to weight gain. Read More »
