by tanya | Apr 28, 2020 | General Medical Info, Nutritional Living
By Colette Dreyer RD (SA) Link between salt intake and high blood pressure? High salt intake is a major contributor to increase the risk for hypertension (high blood pressure), stroke and heart disease. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 2.5 million...
by tanya | Apr 28, 2020 | General Medical Info, Nutritional Living
By Colette Dreyer RD (SA) Managing stress to keep blood pressure low Everyone handles stress in a different way. Do you eat and sleep more, or sleep less, skip meals or drink more alcohol? It’s important to identify how stress affects you. Stress is a risk factor for...
by tanya | Jun 6, 2018 | General Medical Info
When asking individuals, what words or phrases they most readily associate dieticians with, the answers are usually “weight loss”, “healthy eating”, “vegetarian”, or even “salad”. What most of the general public is not...
by tanya | Nov 7, 2017 | General Medical Info
Why should YOU see a dietician? The majority of people view dieticians as nutrition professionals who help overweight individuals get their dietary intake under control, so as to reduce weight. Whilst this is one of the many, and more common things that we do,...
by tanya | Sep 27, 2017 | General Medical Info
As dieticians, we have been using the measure of body mass index (BMI), for many years, as one of the indicators which tell us whether patients are at a healthy weight or not. BMI is measure by dividing your weight in kilograms, by your height, in meters squared i.e....
by tanya | Nov 1, 2016 | General Medical Info, Nutritional Living
When your body lacks the lactase enzyme, the milk is not broken down and arrives in the large intestine as larger molecules. Bacteria in the large intestine attack the sugar & large amounts of gas are released as breakdown products. the sugar itself also causes...
