2020
Nutrition trends and fads since 1986. Presented by Catherine Saxelby, APD
For over thirty years Catherine has been helping consumers distinguish good nutrition from nutribabble. Nutrition fads and trends will be with us forever. We need to keep up with the most recent trends and be able to provide a voice of reason. In her presentation Catherine describes: Diet fads over…
2020
The way we were - Catherine Saxelby on three decades of nutrition
Paula Goodyer
For over 30 years dietitian Catherine Saxelby has helped consumers navigate nutrition both via Foodwatch and books like Nutrition for Life, her healthy eating guide first published in 1986 - a time when paleo was about fossils, not food, and no one had heard of oat milk. Since then we’ve…
2020
Nutrition Care Process: Foundation. Presented by Dr Varitha Kinghorn, PhD, AdvAPD
Dietitians often struggle to prove the effectiveness of their nutrition interventions. The nutrition care process can be used to help track health outcomes, which can then demonstrate the value of our nutrition input. The benefits of using the NCP include: Evaluating the outcomes of patient care and conditions from medical…
2020
FREE Ultra-processed foods. Presented by Dr Priscila Machado
Dr Machado is on the team led by Professor Carlos Monteiro of the University of Sao Paulo that coined the term ‘ultra-processed food’. It also developed NOVA, a new classification system ranking foods according to their level of processing rather than nutrient content. In her presentation Priscila explains: The NOVA…
2020
Binge Eating and Binge Eating Disorder. Presented by Michelle Roberton, APD
Michelle clarifies the difference between overeating, binge eating and binge eating disorder. “Loss of control over eating” is a subjective term used in the definition of BED, which describes someone’s feelings and compulsion to eat. She looks at the LOCOE scale, which helps quantify aspects of behaviour involved in the…
2019
Fussy eating in children. Presented by Dr Amy Lovell, PhD, NZRD
Parents and carers commonly report fussy eating in children. It’s a topic that dietitians get asked about both professionally and by friends and family. Picky eating is often considered deviant behaviour by a small child when it is actually normal for them to be developing a sense of autonomy, preferring…
2019
Intermittent Fasting and the Circadian Clock. Presented by A/Prof Courtney Peterson, PhD, MSc, MA
Courtney begins by outlining the physiological mechanisms of intermittent fasting. She describes six popular fasting regimes (alternate-day fasting, alternate-day modified fasting, 5:2 diet, fasting-mimicking diet, weekly intermittent energy restriction and time-restricted feeding) and explains the latest research comparing them with regard to compliance, cardiometabolic benefits and weight loss. Using the…
2019
Logging Education in Nutrition presentations as part of your CPD is easy
Logging Education in Nutrition presentations as part of your CPD is easy. Included with all our presentations is a document “Log an activity for DAA CPD module: Professional Education”. (Check in your library under files). It is designed to match the DAA requirements for DAA Professional Education CPD.
2019
Obesity: Medical management strategies. Presented by Professor John Dixon MBBS, PhD, FRACGP, FRCP Ed
Medical management strategies for patients with obesity Meal replacements, Drugs & Bariatric surgery. Professor Dixon begins his presentation with a quote from an article in the Huffington Post Everything You Know About Obesity Is Wrong (September 2018). “For decades, the medical community has ignored mountains of evidence to…
2019
How do professional development webinars influence clinical practice? Survey trends 2015-2019
Professional development webinars improve awareness of current clinical practice and boost confidence according to our surveys conducted in 2015, 2017 and 2019. These surveys have helped us learn more about dietitians’ use of professional development webinars and the responses reveal some interesting trends: Professional development webinars have a positive influence…