NHS Tayside’s Nutrition and Dietetic Service has created a suite of webpages on NHS Tayside’s website to provide a trusted source of diet and nutrition advice to help improve the nutrition, health and wellbeing of the Tayside population.
Dietitians are experts in how nutrition can affect our health and apply their knowledge to your personal circumstances to prevent or treat disease and improve your health and wellbeing. They consider a range of factors including your lifestyle, eating habits, cooking skills and activity levels to work towards helping you make the right food choices. Dietitians work with other health professionals such as doctors and nurses to prevent and treat a variety of complex conditions including diabetes, bowel disorders, malnutrition and obesity.
The webpages created by the team include helpful information for the public such as advice on healthy eating, recipes, tools to check if you are above or below the healthy weight range, information about child and adult weight management services, and signposting to sources of help with the cost of living.
There is also information for people who require a special diet for medical conditions, such as coeliac disease and inflammatory bowel disease along with links to help people with cancer, heart disease or stroke manage their nutrition.
Professionals will find information on training available, links to standards and guidelines, advice they can give to patients and how to refer patients into nutrition and dietetic services.
Service lead Nicola Hutchinson said, “There is lots of nutrition and diet information on the web but it can be difficult to know what information you can trust. People using our webpages can be confident they are accessing information written by or recommended by registered dietitians.”
“We will continue to develop the webpages over time and would welcome feedback on further topics the public, patients and staff would like to see covered.”
The Nutrition and Dietetics webpages can be accessed at www.nhstayside.scot.nhs.uk under Our Services.