Health Care Professionals and fad diets: What can we do?

Health Care Professionals and fad diets: What can we do?

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Join  Aisling Pigott (Registered Dietitian, NHS specialist dietitian, PHD candidate and freelance dietitian)  for this webinar where she will focus on the prevalence of fad diets, why we find them so attractive and the harms that they can cause. It will encourage the audience to reflect on our own opinions, views and bias and how these can filter through to clinical practice. The presentation will include a call to action – banishing unhealthy diet culture in the workplace, in clinical practice and instead focus on nourishing messages around food and nutrition. It will include some case studies and top tips for reframing unhealthy diet messages.

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Health Care Professionals and fad diets: What can we do? : Lesson 1

Length: 40 minutesAuthor: cmeComplexity: Standard

In this lesson  Aisling Pigott (Registered Dietitian, NHS specialist dietitian, PHD candidate and freelance dietitian)  will focus on the prevalence of fad diets, why we find them so attractive and the harms that they can cause. It will encourage the audience to reflect on our own opinions, views and bias and how these can filter through to clinical practice. The presentation will include a call to action – banishing unhealthy diet culture in the workplace, in clinical practice and instead focus on nourishing messages around food and nutrition. It will include some case studies and top tips for reframing unhealthy diet messages.