DID YOU KNOW?
Accredited Practising Dietitians:

  • Assess people's nutritional needs;
  • Develop personalised eating plans and nutritional guidelines;
  • Provide information on:
    - Healthy Eating;
    - Reading food labels;
    - Choosing the best foods when shopping and eating out; and
    - Healthy ways to prepare food.
  • Sort out nutrition fact from fiction;
  • Undertake nutrition and food research
  • Train health care professionals; and
  • Develop nutrition communications, programs and policies.

Tailored dietary advice can help you to:

  • Reduce the risk of having a stroke or a heart attack
  • Reduce the risk of developing the painful & serious complications of diabetes
  • Reduce the risk of developing some forms of cancer
  • Maintain your strength during the progression & medical treatment of cancer
  • Decrease the uncomfortable & frustrating symptoms of Irritable Bowel Syndrome
  • Keep your strength and independence as you mature & stop unwanted weight loss
  • Identify & eliminate suspected food intolerances
  • Eradicate disordered & binge eating habits
  • Manage chronic disease
  • Lose or gain weight healthily
  • Regulate your bowel habits

A note on Irritable Bowel Syndrome and compulsive over-eating…

These two conditions impact immensely on quality of life and, particularly for IBS sufferers, dietary manipulation can really ‘give you your life back’. In many cases, IBS symptoms can be alleviated by correcting inappropriate eating patterns, identifying food intolerances, correcting over/under-eating and achieving adequate balanced nutrition using regular healthy foods.

A ‘yo-yo’ weight pattern, poor self esteem, food fixation and chronic dieting are all associated with binge eating behaviours. Dietetic intervention includes ‘normalising’ a client’s eating patterns and food attitudes, assisting them in learning to enjoy food, by adopting a sensible, sustainable, health focussed, non-dieting approach. A clinical psychologist may also be required to address underlying behavioural issues and we will let you know if we think this is warranted for you.

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