Episode 2: Managing Paediatric Constipation
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In episode 2, Anne speaks with guest dietitian Bahee Van de Bor, delving into the complexities of managing paediatric constipation.
This new episode shares a wealth of knowledge around the dietary management of constipation, providing valuable insights, which can be applied across many settings and patient groups.
Episode 2 – Key Discussion Points
- Common causes
- Approaches for treatment & prevention
- Utilising fibre effectively
- Management of laxatives
- Other factors to consider
- Do guidelines need updating?
Further Reading
Ps… You can follow Bahee across Instagram @UKKidsNutrition and on Twitter @Baheevandebor
Episode 1: Social Media & Dietetics
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Speaking with guest dietitian Cristian Costas, show host, Anne Holdoway delves into the complex relationship between social media and dietetics.
This episode highlights key ways in which Cristian has been able to expertly harness various social media platforms, developing his day-to-day practice and overall patients’ experience.
Episode 1 – Key Discussion Points
- The dietetic benefits of each social media platform
- Why dietitians should embrace social media
- Navigating the dangers of misinformation
- Growing a captive audience
- Working with companies
Further Reading
Ps… you can follow Cristian across Instagram at @Coeliac_Dietitian and on Twitter @cristiancostasb
Bonus Episode – Season 1 Round-Up
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In a round-up of Series 1, show host Dr Anne Holdoway looks back over the past discussions, highlighting recurring threads and reviewing various key insights and takeaway points.
This special episode provides listeners with an excellent opportunity to capture a summary of each of the five podcast’s that made up the series.
Season 1 – Episodes Topics
- How Covid-19 Changed Dietetics
- Fibre Laxatives & Constipation
- Understanding Protein Quality
- Let’s Talk ACBS
- Nutrition Provision in the ICU
Episode 5: Nutrition Provision in the ICU
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This inspirational episode will see acclaimed dietitian, Ella Terblanche MBE, discuss her experiences accrued from over 25 years as a critical care dietitian.
Talking with podcast host Dr. Anne Holdoway, Ella conveys a wealth of transferable knowledge, applicable to dietitians at any level.
Episode 5 – Key Discussion Points
- The Intensive Care Society
- The importance of dietitians in the ICU
- Challenges of enteral nutrition provision in the ICU
- Developments in medical nutrition products
- Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic
- Advice for future critical care dietitians
Further reading
- Intensive Care Society
- Guidelines for the provision of intensive care services
- The role of dietitians in critical care paper
- Effort trial
- BDA critical care specialist group
- Novel digitally enabled care pathway to support post-intensive care recovery and goal attainment following critical illness paper
Episode 4: Let’s Talk ACBS
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This insightful episode sees ACBS (Advisory Committee on Borderline Substances) committee member and dietitian, Emma Emmerson, delve into the ‘ins and outs’ of the ACBS with podcast host Dr. Anne Holdoway.
Episode 4 – Key Discussion Points
- The role and remit of the ACBS
- Potential misconceptions of “ACBS approval”
- ACBS product approval process
- Dietetic prescribing rights
- ACBS and the future
Shadowing the ACBS Committee
The government encourages that scientific advisory committees like ACBS occasionally conduct open meetings in the interest of transparency.
For prospective members, the benefits of sitting in on a meeting is simply to get a “feel for it” before committing. Whether the person is sitting in for purposes, transparency or prospective membership, everything is commercially sensitive and must remain confidential.
The ACBS often recruit via what is know as co-opting, with candidates identified on the basis of committee requirements. When a prospective member is identified, they are invited to join a meeting as an observer, after which if they would like to join there is an interview process.
Once appointed the individual will usually shadow an experienced member for their first few meetings.
Guest information
Emma Emmerson
Twitter: @EmmaEEmmerson
Episode 3: Understanding Protein Quality
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This insightful episode sees expert guest Professor Philip Atherton delve into the hot topic of protein quality.
The unique dynamic of this conversation provides simplified explanations of what can become a complex topic. As always, podcast host Dr Anne Holdoway does an excellent job of translating this information into dietetic context, providing countless lessons which can be taken into day-to-day practice.
Episode 3 – Key Discussion Points
- Defining protein quality
- Why is protein quality so important?
- Classifying amino acids
- Is there an “ideal” amino acid profile
- PDCAAS & protein digestibility
- Protein quality in oral and enteral products
Episode 2: Fibre, Laxatives & Constipation
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This fascinating second episode sees Anne Holdoway speak with expert dietitians Tig Bridge and Kirsten Jackson, as they delve into the usage of both fibre and laxatives in the management of constipation. Covering a wide range of current hot topics whilst addressing many of the challenges experienced by dietitians in current practice.
Episode 2 – Key Discussion Points
- Are dietitians overlooked?
- The cost of constipation
- IBS
- Fibre Categorisation
- Laxatives
- Current guidelines
- Fibre in enteral feeding
- Is fibre often forgotten?
Paper referenced in this podcast:
- Dietary fibre in gastrointestinal health and disease. Samantha K. Gill et al. 2020. Available from: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41575-020-00375-4?proof=t
- The Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN) Carbohydrates and Health Report. Available from: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sacn-carbohydrates-and-health-report
- Bowel Interest Group reports. Available from: https://bowelinterestgroup.co.uk/resources/
- Clinical Knowledge Summaries from National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE). Available from: https://cks.nice.org.uk/
Guest information
Tig Bridge
Website: https://thedietaryedit.com/
Socials: @the_dietary_edit
Kirsten Jackson
Website: https://thefoodtreatmentclinic.com/
Socials: @the.ibsdietitian
Episode 1: How Covid-19 Changed Dietetics
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In this inaugural episode, Dr Anne Holdoway speaks with guest dietitian, Aaron Boysen about his experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic. Discussion reflects on how Covid-19 has changed Dietetics and whether these changes are temporary or for good.
Episode 1 – Key Discussion Points
- Defining long COVID and the management of long COVID patients
- Dietetics in the media
- Has dietetic “upskilling” into new areas been of benefit?
- How virtual interaction has affected dietetic practice
- What the future holds for dietetics
- Common misconceptions
Episode 2: Understanding Types of Protein
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This insightful episode bases itself around the question “are all proteins created equal” and sees expert guest, Professor Philip Atherton, explain how we can better understand the different types of protein.
The unique dynamic of this conversation provides simplified explanations of what can become a complex topic. As always, podcast host Dr Anne Holdoway does an excellent job of translating this information into dietetic context, providing countless lessons which can be taken into day-to-day practice.
Episode 2 – Key Discussion Points
- Whole protein vs hydrolysed proteins
- Understanding Collagen
- Digestibility & tolerance
- Essential amino acid (EAA) levels
- Roles of specific EAA’s
- Protein requirements
- Environmental impact of protein types
Episode 3: The Role of Fibre in IBS
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This episode delivers a fascinating discussion between Kirsten Jackson, a consultant IBS dietitian who has been practising for over 13 years and show host Dr Anne Holdoway.
Providing a concise, yet comprehensive overview of the role that fibre plays in the management of patients with IBS, this discussion delivers countless key learnings which can be easily translated into the day-to-day practice of many healthcare professionals, when supporting patients with IBS.
Episode 3 – Key Discussion Points
- The benefits of fibre in IBS (C, D & M)
- Understanding fibre types
- Fibre supplements
- Pre & Probiotics
To learn more about Kirstens dietetic courses or to purchase a copy of her book, please visit her website linked below.
Episode 1: Gut Health and Food Diversity
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Gut health expert, Dr Megan Rossi, highlights the importance of diverse ingredients, in collaboration with PepsiCo Health & Nutrition Science. To find out more on PepsiCo’s product innovation and renovation work through the health and nutrition sciences team: www.pepsico.co.uk
Bringing together two of the UK’s most renowned gut health experts, Episode 1 sees show host Dr Anne Holdoway cover the topic of gut health and food diversity with Dr Megan Rossi.
Episode 1 – Key Discussion Points
- Key influential ingredients & superfoods
- Effects of meal timing
- The importance of diverse ingredients
- Is snacking good or bad?
- Science behind the 30 plant points principal
- The use of novel ingredients
- Managing functional gut disorders
Further Reading
Megan’s Books:
Mentioned studies:
- University of Bergen – Food pattern calculator estimates how to gain up to ten life years
Follow Megan:
Website: https://www.theguthealthdoctor.com/
Twitter: @TheGutHealthDoc
Instagram: @theguthealthdoctor
Episode 4: Sustainability in Dietetics
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Show host Dr Anne Holdoway poses a selection of environmental questions to guest dietitian Tanya Haffner.
Prompting important considerations, this new episode delivers key sustainability principles, applicable across many settings and patient groups.
Episode 4 – Key Discussion Points
- The biggest areas of environmental impact
- Dietetic industry / NHS sustainability targets
- Top tips for advising patients
- Product choice considerations
- Additional cost of greener choices
- Sustainable day-to-day practices
- The future of NHS sustainability
Further Reading
- EAT-Lancet
- Canadian Dietitians: Sustainable Food Systems that Promote Healthy Diets: A proposed Roadmap for Dietetic Practice
- Buy: Diet for a Small Planet – Frances Moore Lappé
- Buy: Plant-Based Nutrition in Clinical Practice – Shireen Kassam
Follow Tanya
Twitter: @TanyaHaffnerRD @Nutrilicious @MyNutriWeb
Instagram: @tanyahaffnerdietitian @MyNutriWeb
Episode 3: Diversity in Dietetics
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Show host Dr Anne Holdoway, poses a selection of key questions to guest dietitians Rhia Saggu & Harpreet Sohal.
This new episode promises to share a wealth of knowledge from both guests, providing valuable considerations and insights, which can be applied across many settings and patient groups.
Episode 3 – Key Discussion Points
- Misconceptions around the term “diversity”
- Language and terminologies
- The value of increasing diversity
- Gender diversity
- Unconscious bias
- Diversifying nutritional advice
- Are current guidelines diverse?
Further Reading
- The Cost of Racial “Colour Blindness”
- The Allied Health Professions strategy for England
- Newtrition Perspectives
- Whose culture has capital? A critical race theory discussion of community cultural wealth
- Dietitians’ life article
- Unconscious Bias
Follow the guests
Twitter: @rhia_saggu & @veggie_nut
Instagram: @veggie.nut
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rhia