GETTING IT RIGHT: - 10 REASONS YOU NEED A PROFESSIONAL DIETITIAN)
1. Good nutrition is not just about eating the right foods. The Dietitian considers the bio-availability of food nutrients before administering them. He/she will ensure that the administered nutrients are digestible, absorb-able and utilizable by the your digestive system and eventually the blood stream.
2. Certain enzymes and hormones must also be in place to aid the proper utilization of these nutrients in the body. For instance, some endocrine disorders can actually disrupt nutrient absorption and utilization. This is the physiology of Nutrition and only a Clinical Dietitian can identify and eliminate this.
3. The Clinical Dietitian will investigate your health status as an individual and determine the best form of therapy that suits you. The quantity and quality of your diet is very important.
4. The Clinical Dietitian will identify any form of food allergy or food intolerance you may have and apply elimination and substitution nutrition adequately.
5. The Dietitian will access your activity level and help prepare you psychologically for the regimen.
6. The Dietitian will investigate thoroughly, the etiology (cause, origin) of your condition and follow the appropriate intervention as it relates to nutrition and diet.
7. If you are on medications, the Dietitian will help balance your diet and medication using the drug-nutrients interaction techniques. This will ensure that your drugs and nutrients will not antagonize each other; rather they will work hand in hand to achieve total health.
8. The Dietitian will quantify your nutrient intake based on the RDA (Recommended Daily Allowance) for you as an individual. This is important so as not to overload the system and predispose you to OVER-VITAMINOSIS.
9. The Dietitian makes use of differential and definitive diagnosis tools – Clinical assessment, Diet recall, anthropometrics analysis and biochemical tests (if necessary) etc, to bring any ailing condition in the body system to the fore and handle them. Ailing conditions include the sub-clinical and asymptomatic anomalies.
10. Appropriate diagnosis is highly essential for proper treatment. A professional Dietitian is trained to be able to identify ailing health conditions using physical assessment even when diagnosis machines are faulty or not available.
QUALIFICATION OF A PROFESSIONAL (CLINICAL) DIETITIAN.
1) A degree in HUMAN NUTRITION from a recognized University is COMPULSORY.
2) A Compulsory One-Year Internship Program in the Dietetics Unit of a reputable Teaching Hospital
3) Membership of relevant professional bodies
Dietitians are physicians, licensed to practice Nutrition and Dietary medicine
A well-chosen diet can protect your health. Choose wisely and live longer
JANE CHINYELU ELEODI
CLINICAL DIETITIAN/NUTRITIONIST
Bsc(Hons) UIb; Mnsn; Mnda; LUTH (Intshp)
08033257478, 08171889733
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