Teaching the Low FODMAP diet to your clients, Marnie Nitschke, APD
This presentation is a fabulously detailed and practical session on how we can help clients implement the Low FODMAP diet. Marnie is an APD with 16 years of experience working in the field of gastro-intestinal nutrition. She worked with Dr Sue Shepherd using the FODMAP approach since its inception, and has specialised in gastroenterology at leading Melbourne hospitals as well as working with clients in private practise.
She shows how to give each client clear steps to trial a Low FODMAP diet which will give them the best outcome. Marnie covers client assessment, and demonstrates how to explain the science of the diet in language clients can understand, using the following:
IBS and the Low FODMAP diet
The FODMAP acronym
How FODMAPs cause symptoms
Facts about dairy, soy, fructose, polyols, oligosaccharides, glutans, fructans, inulin
Elimination Diets
Food lists and product lists, label reading, using apps, books and online resources, keeping a food and symptom diary
Planning meals and adapting recipes, and great information on eating out
FODMAPs and coeliac, vegan and vegetarian clients
Challenging – challenge foods, schedules, managing symptoms, interpretation
Encouraging a liberalised approach– reintroduction of foods and long term nutrition outcomes
Reputable resources
Marnie is a consultant with Everyday Nutrition in Melbourne. She also works in clinical dietetics and health promotion.
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