The Dietitian Cafe

In this episode Harriet is joined by registered dietitians Emily Stuart and Declan Henderson. Both Declan and Emily work for Apetito, a company that manufactures and provides meals for a range of organisations including hospitals, care homes, schools and nurseries. Apetito also own popular meal delivery service, Wiltshire farm foods.Emily graduated as a dietitian back in 2013 and has since enjoyed several years in clinical practice, in a number of specialties; later moving into industry as Company Dietitian for Apetito and Wiltshire Farm Foods. Emily is involved in a lot of training, where she provides teaching for university students, internal colleagues and other professionals about what they do at Apetito and Wiltshire Farm Foods.Declan has worked at Apetito UK since graduating from the University of Surrey in 2018 and most recently as Category Development Manager for Specialist Nutrition. Declan takes extreme pride in managing their texture modified ranges across Wiltshire Farm Foods, Care Homes and Healthcare helping those with swallowing difficulties to dine with dignity. In this episode, we’ll be exploring what it’s like to work in the food industry as a dietitian. We’ll chat to Emily and Declan about their routes into their current jobs, exciting projects they’ve been involved with and hear their top tips and tricks for dietitians wanting to work in the food industry.Apetito Website: https://www.apetito.co.uk/ Wiltshire Farm Foods: https://www.wiltshirefarmfoods.com/Reach our guests: [email protected] [email protected] SN.com for TM info for hcps: https://www.specialistnutrition.com/

In this big dietetic debate, we discuss the topic of ‘Where are all the men in dietetics?’. Harriet is joined by registered dietitians Dr Adrian Brown and Owen Marples. Adrian works as a Senior Specialist Weight Management Dietitian. He is also a Research Fellow and lecturer at University College London, with his research interests centring around obesity, type 2 diabetes, bariatric surgery, weight stigma and the use of low energy diets in different patient populations. Owen has worked in a variety of NHS roles including diabetes specialist dietitian, public health coordinator and quality support manager, and he is now a Clinical Lead Dietitian at digital healthcare company Oviva.To coincide with Men’s Health Week and this year’s diversity themed Dietitian's Week, we will be discussing the lack of gender diversity amongst the dietetic profession. We’ll explore why the dietetics profession is almost exclusively female, look at the possible reasons for this and discuss the possible implications. Adrian and Owen will give their suggestions for what can be done in the future to engage men and encourage them to join the profession.How to connect with our guests:Dr Adrian Brown, @BrownAdey (Twitter)Owen Marples, @MarplesOwen (Twitter)

In this big dietetic debate, we will be discussing the topic of how to have a healthy plant-based diet from a paediatric and adult dietetic perspective. In this episode Harriet is joined by registered dietitians Harpreet Sohal and Kate Roberts; both are plant-based eaters themselves and advocates of the evidence-based approaches for achieving a nutritionally balanced plant-based diet. Harpreet works as an acute dietitian and loves to share myth-busting information and experiment with vegetarian and vegan recipes. Kate is a paediatric dietitian and fellow podcaster who has specialised in plant-based eating.Introducing Our Guests:Kate Roberts MSc RD@vegan_kids_dietitianKate is passionate about supporting parents so they can provide their children with a nutritionally complete vegan diet. She also works as a part time specialist paediatric dietitian for the NHS and has a wide range of dietetic experience both with adults and children. Kate has specialised in paediatrics, food allergy and plant-based eating.Harpreet Sohal, RD(@veggie.nut)I currently work in an acute specialist hospital with adults and children who have complex sarcoma and orthopaedic surgeries. I enjoy sharing information on nutrition myth-busting and promoting healthy eating tips for South Asian diets, in an easy-to-understand way. I love to bake, cook and experiment with vegetarian and vegan recipes too.https://www.bda.uk.com/resource/one-blue-dot.htmlhttps://www.bda.uk.com/resource/vegetarian-vegan-plant-based-diet.htmlhttps://www.firststepsnutrition.org/eating-well-infants-new-mumshttps://www.vegansociety.com/

In this episode focusing on mental health within Dietetics and the workplace, Harriet speaks with three Dietitians who share their experiences and expertise in this area.Dorothy Balhatchet, Registered DietitianDorothy is a Registered Dietitian with experience in acute, community, public health, research and education. For the past six years she has worked as a lecturer, placement tutor and course leader for a dietetics programme with a particular focus on supporting learners with disabilities and a core interest in widening participation.Twitter: @Dotti_RDKeren Chapman, Specialist Mental Health Dietitian and Personal TrainerKeren is a Specialist Mental Health Dietitian and Personal Trainer. Keren works for a large NHS Mental Health Trust and has recently started some freelance work. Keren is passionate about bridging the gap between mental and physical health and improving people's relationships with diet and exercise. In her spare time, Keren is a keen runner and is in the process of training for her first Ultra Marathon.Show notes: Mental Health Matters - https://www.mhm.org.uk/ Instagram; @kerendietitian https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/keren-chapman1Holly Monday-Jones, Acute and Critical Care Dietetic Team Lead and Acute Nutrition Support Specialist DietitianHolly Monday-Jones is an Acute and Critical Care Dietetic team lead as well as an Acute Nutrition Support Specialist Dietitan. She works in the NHS in North Wales. Holly is a Dietetic Well-being Champion and Engagement Ambassador within her current Dietetic [email protected] / Instagram is HMJNutritionhttps://www.nhsemployers.org/retention-and-staff-experience/health-and-wellbeing/taking-a-targeted-approach/taking-a-targeted-approach/mental-health-in-the-workplaceAny views or opinions expressed on the Dietitian Café podcast are solely those of the guest/interviewee, and do not necessarily represent those of Nualtra Limited.

This is part II of our Big Dietetic Debate on the topic of diversity in dietetics. In this episode, Harriet is joined by Registered Dietitian Tai Ibitoye. Tai Ibitoye is a Registered Dietitian and a Doctoral Researcher in Food & Nutritional Sciences. She is currently doing research focusing on appetite and dietary intake in older adults. She also has a keen interest in women’s health and the nutritional status of minority ethnic groups, specifically Black African and Caribbean individuals. In Part I, we discussed why the lack of diversity in dietetics is an issue and the extent of the problem. In part II, we will explore ways to address the lack of diversity in dietetics on an individual and professional level. I hope you find this episode interesting and useful.@taitalksnutrition - Instagram

For this month’s big dietetic debate, we talk to Specialist Fertility Dietitian Ro Huntriss and Maternal Dietitian and Dietetic Clinical Lead at MoreLife UK Pam Finlay to explore the role of nutrition and dietetics in fetal and maternal health. Pam Finlay is the Dietetic Clinical Lead at MoreLife (UK) Ltd. Pam has a wealth of dietetic experience with specific expertise in weight management, mental health, diabetes and maternal health.Ro Huntriss is a Consultant Dietitian who specialises in Fertility Nutrition. She is a founding committee member of the BDA Maternal and Fertility Nutrition Specialist Group, and is the creator of the 90 Day Food Fertility Formula online course. She can be found on Instagram @ fertility.dietitian.uk Show notes: https://www.more-life.co.uk/https://cdn.easo.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/31073423/Obesity-Language-Matters-_FINAL.pdfhttps://www.bda.uk.com/specialist-groups-and-branches/maternal-and-fertility-specialist-group.html

Anjanee Kohli currently works for the NHS in a community paediatric setting, seeing children for various clinical needs including enteral feed management, autism, faltering growth, allergies and developmental delays. The location where she works is very culturally diverse, so she is also working on an Ethnic Diet tutorial for both staff and students which teaches about the influence of culture and religion on diets and why this is important to know when working with patients. She is passionate about disseminating nutritional information to diverse populations who it may not otherwise reach. This includes volunteering in settings such as temples, using conversational Punjabi to relay this information, writing for different publications or via her social media. She is also passionate about cooking, which includes traditional Punjabi dishes she has learnt (and is sometimes still learning) from her Mum who grew up in Punjab. She relays how to adapt traditional punjabi or Indian dishes, and not neglecting these in the pursuit of health.Jasmine Carbon is the senior specialist community lead dietitian at Guy's & St Thomas' Trust.Having worked within the NHS for over 5 years, she has amassed a wide range of experience including renal, neuro-medicine and oncology. Outside of her NHS role she is an active BDA member as the Vice Chair for BDA London Branch. Jasmine's commitment to health outside of the NHS has lead to her founding Carbon Nutrition & Dietetics. Originally Carbon Nutrition was a way to share diet advice to family and friends, but it quickly developed into a consultancy service supporting and educating individuals, schools, corporate and community groups.You can connect with our guests here:@[email protected]@[email protected] links:www.wiley.com/en-gb/Multicultura…cs-p-9781405173582www.carbsandcals.com/books/world-foods

Clare Lewis trained at the University of Surrey and has been working as a dietitian in gastroenterology and nutrition support for the past 20 years. Clare heads up the Dietetic department at Salisbury District Hospital in conjunction with her role as an Advanced Dietetic Practitioner. She also runs a private practice, with clinics at home and at New Hall Hospital.How to connect with Clare:@ClareLewisRD (Twitter only)[email protected]

In this episode, Harriet is joined by the BDA Student Rep Molly McEntee-Morris. Molly is in her final year studying Nutrition and Dietetics at the University of Chester and is the current British Dietetic Association Student Representative. This is the first time we’ve had a student on the Dietitian Cafe Podcast, and there’s never been a more appropriate time than now. We know that many of our listeners are students and your studies have been hugely affected by COVID. So we asked Molly to speak to her fellow student body to share the realities of being a student during covid as well as her thoughts on the future of dietetics from a student perspective. We hope you enjoy this episode!You can connect with Molly here:[email protected] @theaspiringdietitiantwitter @BDAstudentQuestionnaire: https://winchester.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/motivations-for-choosing-allied-health-profession-careers

To coincide with Eating Disorders Week, in this episode, we talk to two eating disorder specialist dietitians Roslyn Gray and Sarah Elder. We explore why we have seen such an increase in the prevalence of eating disorders during the COVID-19 pandemic and discuss their recommendations to help manage this. We hope you enjoy this episode! Introducing Our Guests:Roslyn Gray (@graynutritionrd) is a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services specialist eating disorder dietitian working in an adolescent inpatient ward alongside her freelance work.Sarah Elder (@saraheldernutrition) is a Registered Dietitian and also works with people with Eating Disorders. Sarah works both for the NHS and as a Freelance Dietitian. Show notes: - Help your child beat an eating disorder - by James Lock- Social media: @saraheldernutrition and @graynutritionrd