Eat For You Dietitian
Specialist Dietitian in Eating Disorders and Disordered Eating
Category: Eat For You
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I’ve recently started a new Specialist Eating Disorders Dietitian role within an adult community service focusing on outpatients and day care treatment, primarily treating anorexia nervosa. Today I sat in one of the groups with the day care unit and one of the topics that came up was the ongoing ‘diet talk’ from family members…
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Constipation can be a distressing and uncomfortable problem that affects people of all ages. It’s caused by a variety of factors, including a lack of dietary fiber regularly, stress, our environment, poor hydration, and lack of movement. Many clinical conditions can exacerbate constipation, for example, diverticular disease and neurological conditions. If you’re not sure if…
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How to be Body Neutral? Do you remember the first time you remember being told X food was ‘bad’ for you and your body or the first time someone commented on your body and said something that you still remember to this day? I do, and it took years of going through disordered eating behaviours, hating…
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What is IBS? Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is a common functional gastrointestinal or gut disorder characterised by changes in bowel habits (e.g diarrhoea, constipation or both) and symptoms such as abdominal pain and bloating which are significant to impact day to day life. The term ‘functional disorder’ is a term used for, in this case…
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Rejecting the Diet Mentality I recently saw an instagram post this week providing advice on how to stop ‘overeating and restricting’ cycle. The first step being ‘Ditch the Diets’. Is it really that simple? And where do we start? This takes a massive amount of un-learning to do from all the messages we get from…
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First of all, what is a perfect diet? No one has a perfect diet, and if that is what you are perceiving from their social media platform then let me tell you, it is not the whole truth. You are seeing a snapshot of what they want to show you only. The common phrase I…
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