Dietician
These are some of the things that dieticians working in the mental health sector tell us they do
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assess, and monitor physical health providing interventions using nutritional science
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primarily concerned with risk reduction and treatment of cardiometabolic disease, but also malnutrition and gastrointestinal abnormalities.
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a core role is to support consumers to make healthy lifestyle choices in regards to food. There is a known secondary effect on mental health when physical health is optimized.
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nutrition/diet disease counselling, service development
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facilitate shopping and cooking groups as nutritional therapy
How does your answer compare with what the dieticians say they do?