Posts Tagged ‘Accredited Practising Dietitian’

*+-Nuts are a fascinating food, and for us with diabetes they tick so many of our healthy eating boxes – fibre, nutrients, good fats, satiety and more! Today we’ll take a closer look at the reasons behind all those good stories with a focus on our D-health (remembering to choose unsalted ones). It’s important to…

*+-As it’s Easter next weekend I thought a good topic to talk about might be eggs – not choccy eggs but chiccy eggs Reason being that many people choose to avoid meat over the Easter period for religious reasons and eggs are an eggcellent way to help you meet your protein another nutrient requirements. We’ll…

*+-As you would know, the Easter long weekend is the one after next (Good Friday being the 18th April) and you will have noticed all the Easter so called ‘goodies’ in the supermarkets set out to tempt you. As we have four days off, it’s also a time of year, similar to Christmas time, when…

*+-To date we’ve covered quite a few topics from our Australian Dietary Guidelines including Guideline 1 – ‘Diabetes and healthy weight with a twist’, Guideline 5 – ‘Food safety – a major consideration in the heat of the Aussie summer’, and a few from Guideline 2 – eating a wide variety from the 5 food…

*+-As people with diabetes, it’s important that alongside managing the day-to-day needs of our diabetes we also pay attention to avoidance or awareness of issues that may creep up when we least expect it. Two such issues are celebrating their Australian national awareness week this week: Salt Awareness Week, through the Heart Foundation 10-16 March,…