Health Care Professionals and fad diets: What can we do? (1 CME point) By Aisling Pigott
This presentation is delivered by Aisling Pigott, a Registered Dietitian, and 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
Learning Objectives:
- Understand and appreciate that diet culture is all around us, none of us are immune
- Understand why image focused diet culture and fad diets are detrimental to health and wellbeing
- Be aware of actions that they can take in personal life and clinical practice to challenge diet culture
- Be aware of intuitive eating and appetitie regulation
- Be aware of top tips for reframing unhealthy messages around food
Speakers
Aisling Pigott
Registered Dietitian
Aisling Pigott is a Registered Dietician and PgCert Sports and Exercise Nutritionist and MSc Advanced Dietetic. She runs a freelance consultancy called Dietitian Wales. She is also the Lead Paediatric Diabetes Dietician at Cardiff and Vale University Health Board. She has 12 years of experience and her main nutrition messages are simple and realistic- her practice takes an anti-fad, pro-health approach to diet and health.
This webinar is CPD accredited, a certificate can be received to viewers who watch the webinar live and completes the reflection form linked at the end.
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