15 – Interviews with Dietitians – desres23.designandcommunication.net

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Dietitians have specialties – they can acquire and assign these themselves.
Cooking schools could be interesting
Micronutrients play more of a role in everyday life when it comes to specific diseases
Diseases are the main topic of nutritional advice
Clients mostly > 50 years
Three main starting points: Preventive, therapeutic, rehabilitation
Statutes different in every country
The nutrition pyramid
New dietitians „are frightened off out in the hospital kitchen“
→ see interview with Sandra
Doctors usually have no idea about nutritional science
Dietitians are the only ones allowed to work in nutritional therapy
When in doubt, doctors refer patients to dieticians (prescription for nutrition therapy), but some doctors don’t even know about this option.
Further education and training for doctors in nutritional science/nutritional medicine is often not particularly helpful
Classic diseases associated with nutrition: Night blindness, fatty liver, diabetes (mostly in clients > 50 years), blood sugar, high blood pressure ( mostly in clients > 30 years)
The most important part of a healthy diet is: drink water!
Great interest in the topic among acquaintances
Balanced nutrition != healthy nutrition
There are different types of nutrition and diets

Statutes: what are they and how do they look in Austria compared to Germany?
The food pyramid (and the different types of food)
What is metabolic syndrome?
DGE: 10 rules for a healthy diet
What does a nutrition log look like?
How many dietitians are there?
What does a nutrition plan look like/ how do you write one?
What is the DGE and what figures has it published in relation to macronutrients?
Different types of food