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What Do Dietitians Do?

While a Dietitians specialties can vary, the core thread is that they provide planning, monitoring, guidance and education for eating and nutrition. Depending on the needs of their client they can tailor their advice. In this brief article well look at the core services of Dietitians and well also include some key things you can do before visiting a Dietitian.

They will:

  • Analyse your current diet and nutrient intake
  • Assess Your Nutritional Requirements
  • Offer advice on foods that can fill gaps in your nutritional requirements
  • Develop eating plans based on your tastes, lifestyle, and nutritional needs.
  • Develop specialized plans if you have a condition that hinders a normal diet such as a food allergy, diabetes, coeliac disease, polycystic ovarian syndrome, etc.
  • They can educate you about food and their nutritional content.
  • Meet you on a semi regular basis to ensure you stay on track and to further your education. Plus they can tailor your diet to any changes in your situation.

What Should I Bring to a first appointment

The more information you can be prepared with the better and more fruitful your meeting will be. More information makes the dietitians contribution more accurate and more useful. Here are a couple of things you can do to make your session that much more useful:

  • Prepare any information on your current situation. Including current exercise regime: type of exercise, how long and how often.
  • Your medical history
  • What and how much you currently eat

The most important thing is to remember to be truthful. The more honest and open you are about your situation the better the advice you will get and the more likely you’ll be able to implement it.

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