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The updated IOC consensus statement and the dietitian’s role in REDs

Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (REDs) is a syndrome relating to low energy availability relative to expenditure, resulting in health and performance consequences. Dietitians in all scopes of practice have the opportunity to recognise REDs and to play a role in supporting individuals to fuel adequately.

Learn about:

• What’s changed in the REDs model update
• How low energy availability (and REDs) can occur in individuals with higher and/or stable body weights
• The range of causes for low energy availability ranging from obsessive, intentional and inadvertent subtypes

This presentation covers:

• REDs through the lens of the 2023 IOC consensus statement update
• REDs Health and Performance Conceptual Models and Clinical Assessment Tool-Version 2
• Dietitian’s role in screening, (diagnosis), assessment, and monitoring. 

Professor Louise Burke is a sports dietitian with 40 years of experience in the education and counselling of elite athletes. She worked at the Australian Institute of Sport for thirty years, first as Head of Sports Nutrition and then as Chief of Nutrition Strategy. She was the team dietitian for the Australian Olympic Teams for the 1996-2012 Summer Olympic Games. Her publications include over 350 papers in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters, and several textbooks on sports nutrition. She is an editor of the International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism. Louise was a founding member of the Executive of Sports Dietitians Australia and is a Director of the IOC Diploma in Sports Nutrition. In 2009 Louise was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia for her contribution to sports nutrition. She is currently the Chair in Sports Nutrition in the Mary MacKillop Institute of Health Research at Australian Catholic University in Melbourne. 

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