Nutrition and Dietetic Services
Tailored nutritional advice
We can provide nutritional support and advice for a wide variety of conditions for both adults and children of all ages.
Please click on the conditions below to see some information on how we can help support you to achieve your health goals and manage your condition. If you don’t see your problem listed below or would like to discuss things in more detail, please get in touch.
Our specialist dietitian can help in the management of all aspects of diabetes. Whether you have been told you are at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes or have ‘prediabetes’ or have had diabetes since childhood and are dependent on insulin through injections or a hybrid closed-loop pump system.
We can help you manage your diabetes and optimise your blood sugar control to help prevent any complications from developing.
Contact us to make an important or discuss your needs further.
Wondering if food is the cause of your or your child’s unpleasant symptoms (rashes, fatigue, gut upsets), needing the toilet soon after eating? Want to know if you have an allergy or an intolerance? Your baby won’t stop crying and vomits after every feed, we can help.
Our dietitians have vast experienced in identifying and managing food allergies. We work with clients of all ages to help them identify which foods might be causing the problem and then look at solutions for how to manage this and eat a nutritionally balanced diet.
We have considerable experience working with parents to manage feeding an allergic child, ensuring that the child gets all the necessary nutrients that are crucial for growth and development.
We can support the following:
· Cow’s milk protein allergy for both breast fed, and formula fed infants
· Egg allergy
· Soya allergy
· Wheat allergy
· Nut allergy
· Oral Allergy Syndrome (also known as pollen allergy syndrome or birch allergy)
· Eosinophilic Oesophagitis (EoE)
· Lactose intolerance
· Sensitivity to Histamine and other Vasoactive Amines
The above list is not exhaustive, so if your possible food allergy or intolerance is not listed here, please get in touch to see if we can help you.
Do you have concerns about the nutritional quality of your diet? Do you want to information on your calcium or iron intake? Are you considering a vegetarian or vegan diet and want to know how to achieve a balanced diet?
Are you recovering from and illness or operation? Or about to undergo treatment and want to optimise the nutritional quality of your diet? Have you lost weight and worried about malnutrition?
Conditions such as the perimenopause, menopause, polycystic ovarian syndrome or endometriosis can be difficult to navigate with fluctuating hormone levels that can affect the gut causing unpleasant symptoms. We can work with to look at the role diet plays in your symptoms and help you to optimise your nutritional intake.
We can help you with all these issues and work with you to ensure your diet needs your individual needs.
Contact us for further information and book an appointment with the Team.
Are digestive problems getting you down? We can help you to get back on track with may problems including:
· IBS – we tailor our approach to your needs offering different dietary solutions including from adjusting your fibre intake to the complex low FODMAP diet that needs the support of a dietitian.
· Reflux – managing reflux and identifying if any foods are triggering your symptoms can seem very daunting. We see many clients who end up on
very restrictive diets and still have symptoms. We can work with you to help identify potential triggers and find a solution to suit your lifestyle.
· Diverticular disease – we can help understand which foods might be triggering your symptoms and work with to develop a bespoke plan to help you manage and ultimately prevent flare ups.
· Constipation – this can affect anyone of any age and lead to other unpleasant symptoms such as nausea, bloating, and pain. We can work with you to look at dietary and lifestyle factors that may be contributing to your symptoms.
· Coeliac disease – whether you or newly diagnosed or have been living with coeliac disease for many years, we can provide specialist and practical advise to help you optimise your health.
The above list is not exhaustive, so if your gut health problem is not listed here please get in touch to see if we can help you.
At Sunlight Nutrition our dietitians use their interpersonal skills and additional training in behaviour change to build relationships with clients working to support them on their weight management journey.
We can support you to achieve healthy, sustainable weight loss providing a personal and tailored experience.
We can use self-monitoring apps to help our clients understand the link between what they are eating and their health.
Fe d up with diets and looking for a non-dieting approach to changing your eating habits? Look no further, we can support you with an intuitive eating approach, helping you to find peace with food. Many clients with disordered eating find this approach helpful, allowing them to reconnect with their body’s natural signals.
For more information on how we can help you manage your weight and eating habits or to book an appointment please get in touch.
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