Gutsy Nutrition & Dietetics

What Dietitians Do 🇳🇿
A little statements from the dietetic dept in Christchurch NZ who will have experienced unimaginable scenes in the last few days. Despite all this, attention was given to ensure all tube feeds administered were Halal certified. So much respect for this. Thank you for looking after our dear brothers and sisters. ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Happy Birthday NHS! 💙

Brilliant video to help avoid the nutribollox! ❌

Stoneless 🥑 avocados at #MarksAndSpencerFood
Could this reduce “Avocado Hand”? 😯🥑🔪🤚🏾

🌱 DUNDEE VEG FEST🌱Today I visited the second Vegan Food Festival in Dundee. Whilst I’m not vegan myself, I often come across vegan/vegetarian patients in clinical practice and issues they may face to meet requirements and prevent nutritional deficiencies. I learnt a lot about the vegan community as a whole, ensuring not only foods are chemical free, but also household cleaning products, self care products and pet care products. Some of my favourite stalls had to be @noshiveg...anfood for vegan sushi, @tempehtation_uk for Indonesian tempeh. I was a bit disappointed with the amount of vegan chocolate stalls and would love to see more healthy snack stalls in the future. I was also a bit taken aback by some of the product prices. One of the key nutrients to ensure enough is being consumed on a vegan diet is protein, whilst keeping an eye 👀 out for protein products I came across “vegan eggs”. 15 eggs cost a whopping £6.99 and each egg gave only 2.5g of protein compared to 6.5g in a medium hen egg. My advice to those on a vegan diet would be to check the nutritional content of these products thoroughly, don’t be sold by claims on front of packaging, before investing your money. There will be alternatives out there to help you meet your goals. If you are struggling, seek advice from a Dietitian or Registered Nutritionist. 🌱💚 #Dietitian #Nutritionist #Vegan #Vegetarian #Review #DietitianReview #DundeeVegFest #PlantBasedDiet #Nutrition #Health #Foodie #NomNom #Dundee #Scotland @ Dundee
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Event for local vegans tomorrow. #DundeeVegFest #Dundee #Vegan

A recent survey by The British Dietetic Association has found that almost 60% of the UK Public trust advice from underqualified nutrition professionals, including personal trainers and fitness instructors who sometimes have as little as 12 weeks training in nutrition. We need more Registered Dietitians as we are the only legally regulated nutrition professionals in the UK, so please PLEASE remember to vote today! #GeneralElection

A really great recipe by Nutrition by Nazima for alternative ways to have your dates and oats in Ramadan! Check it out ✌🏽️ #Ramadan2017 #Suhoor #Fasting

Ramadan Mubarak to everyone when it arrives, wishing you all a productive, healthy and happy month 🌙
Many of you will have goals for this month, here's a little article to help ensure fasting is beneficial for you physically as well as spiritually.
Happy reading 😊
... Shehnaz Bashir RD 🍎
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This is too cute! ❤️ #FeedingTubeAwareness #Tubie #LittleSuperhero Feeding Tube Awareness

It is hard to believe that time of year is approaching again. Ramadan starts THIS WEEK!! If you are prepping for Ramadan or interested in fasting for other reasons, here's a little reminder of what your body goes through when fasting sensibly 🌙 #Ramadan2017 #Fasting

💜💜💜19th May 2017 - World IBD Day💜💜💜
A day to raise awareness of the impact chronic illness has on many lives. Happy reading 😊
Shehnaz Bashir RD🍎
... #CrohnsAndColitisUK #WorldIBDDay #InflammatoryBowelDisease
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Vitamin D ☀🎣 How do we get enough of this vitamin in the winter months? New guidelines earlier this year suggest intake of a supplement to meet recommended intake as sunlight exposure is extremely low. See the fact sheet below by the British Dietetic Association on dietary sources and supplements. Very important for healthy bones! 🏋🏼

Hajj is the Muslim pilgrimage which forms one of the 5 pillars of Islam. This year Gutsy N&D had the opportunity to go on this journey, but what does Hajj entail if you have an ileostomy? Whilst I recognise this is a very small target audience, there is definitely a shortage of information out there for these patients.
Happy reading ☺️ Shehnaz RD🍎

Gutsy N&D is taking a break till 22nd September. Any enquiries made will be replied to after this date 😊🌍✈️

The not so super truth about "Superfoods"! This marketing term has worked wonders on making people spend money unnecessarily and thinking some foods are far superior to others in nutritional benefit. Unfortunately these single foods cannot provide all the nutrition you need and will not give you superpowers. What happened to the good old balanced diet? #BritishDieteticAssociation #EverythingInModeration