Welcome to Dietitian’s Life
A blog on nutrition, diet and the life of a dietitian. No fad diets, potions or pills, promoting evidence-based dietary advice. We are Louise and Sarah, best buddy dietitians with over 20 years of dietetic experience between us. We have a similar enthusiasm for all things dietetic and ensuring the right nutritional messages are getting out there.We post about current nutritional topics, healthy eating and the life of a dietitian! We also have guest posts from other great dietitians too! Enjoy x
Dietitians are trained at degree level and must be registered with the Health Care Professions Council to practice. This means we must adhere to a code of conduct, ensuring we give evidence-based nutritional advice.
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Healthy Eating
Health and hot nutrition topics such as fibre, sugar and plant based diets.
Special Diets
Special diets including gluten free, PKU, TMAU.
Recipes
Family friendly, quick and easy recipes.
Dietitian's Life
Our thought’s on the life of a dietitian!
Healthy Eating
Health and hot nutrition topics such as fibre, sugar and plant based diets.
Special Diets
Special diets including gluten free, PKU, TMAU.
Recipes
Family friendly, quick and easy recipes.
Dietitian's Life
Our thought’s on the life of a dietitian!
Our Latest Blog Posts
Why is it important to have diversity in dietetics and do we have it?
I would like to welcome Harpreet Sohal RD as guest writer on Dietitian's Life. Harpreet takes a look at diversity in the profession of dietetics. Thanks so much for discussing this important topic Harpreet. You can find Harpreet on social media including instagram...
To niche or not to niche in nutrition
To Niche or Not to Niche in the nutrition world?Using social media can be a great tool to get yourself known and to grow your business. One of the ways to grow your account is to niche down into one specialist subject. Some of the successful dietitians on social media...
Do we really need to gut cleanse?
Gut issues have become more common in recent years and people are often looking for ways to gut cleanse. Life has got so busy that people feel very limited with their time. This leads to stress, a lack of activity and looking for fast foods (that are typically highly...
Butternut Squash and Kohlrabi Soup
This butternut squash and kohlrabi soup is a delicious light meal. It is easy to make and can be saved in the fridge for a few days. It is low in fat, vegan and low in protein for people needing to follow a low protein diet for medical reasons. Kohlrabi Kohlrabi is...
Healthy Meal Ideas: High fibre low sugar
What meals and snacks should you be eating when thinking about a high fibre, low sugar diet? Are you stuck for ideas? With the latest government guidelines suggesting we should be aiming to eat 30g of fibre per day and less than 5% of our total energy as sugar, then...
An Update on Galactosaemia and Dietary Treatment
Galactosaemia is a rare inborn error of carbohydrate metabolism which is caused by the severe deficiency of the enzyme galactose-1-phosphate uridyltransferase (GALT). The GALT enzyme is the second enzyme in the Leloir biochemical pathway which converts galactose into...
10 Myths About Food that Dietitians hear all the time!
As dietitians we talk and think about food all the time. We have heard all the myths about food several times over online and in our consultations. There are so many food myths around, a lot of them stemming from unqualified sources or old wives' tales. In this post...
A BIT OF PKU HISTORY
I love hearing about PKU history, about how the first child was treated. It is very important to understand where it started and how far we have come in 70 years and how important the diet is in the treatment. A diet to prevent brain damage Often it doesn’t matter if...
A Dietitian’s Top 10 Store Cupboard Essentials
During this lock down time we are encouraged to only venture out to the shops when we need to. This means we need to plan and have a well stocked pantry with store cupboard essentials that will last for a while. Making a meal plan and a shopping list is a good way to...
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