19Oct 2017 by Aidan Muir
Ellie Bullen Q & A

Ellie Bullen Q & A

Other
Can you tell us a little bit about yourself? My name is Ellie, I am a 24-year-old nutritionist and dietitian from Australia. I run an Instagram and blog called Elsa’s Wholesome Life where I share my healthy lifestyle, recipes and travels. I saw that your philosophy is “Eat More Plants” – can you elaborate on that and why it is your philosophy? Well, during university one of the key nutrition problems that was highlighted was that only 5% of Australians eat the recommended number of vegetable servings. My philosophy to ‘Eat More Plants’ is basically just encouraging people at the simplest level to eat more plant-based foods. It is good for your health and the environment. What are some of your top nutrition tips for somebody looking to lose weight?…
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12Oct 2017 by Aidan Muir
Rebecca Gawthorne Q & A

Rebecca Gawthorne Q & A

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Can you tell us a little bit about yourself? My name is Bec. I live in Cronulla Beach in Sydney. I have the most amazing husband Laurent & I love being outdoors in the sunshine eating mangoes. I’m also a Dietitian & Nutritionist and own the Instagram @nourish_naturally. What do you see as some of the opportunities and challenges for dietitians in the future? The online world, especially social media! Take Instagram for example. There are over 95 million photos uploaded to IG every day & over 40 billion posts made to date. That’s one engaged platform & a great deal of this engagement centres around food & health. Dietitians are the authority on food & nutrition and thus we need to have a presence on social media. What are…
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19Sep 2017 by Aidan Muir
Layne Norton Q & A

Layne Norton Q & A

Other
Can you please tell us a little bit about yourself? Well, basically I’m a science geek who loves to lift heavy things. I started bodybuilding at age 17 in order to build more muscle to improve my confidence and increase my self-esteem. Also, I wanted more attention from girls LOL. Over time I developed a pure love for training. I went on to win my pro card in natural bodybuilding and actually win my class at a pro show. In the last 5 years, I’ve become very involved with powerlifting and have managed to win USA Nationals twice as well as a silver medal at the world championships. I also set a world squat record of 303kg at 91.5 kg bodyweight that has since been broken. In my academic career,…
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17Sep 2017 by Aidan Muir
Lisa Middleton Q & A

Lisa Middleton Q & A

Other, Sports
Can you please tell us a little bit about yourself and your career? I work predominantly in sports nutrition and I basically became interested in it just from my own personal interest in sport. I did a lot of sport when I was younger and was just interested in the link between what you ate and how that affected performance. I used to experiment with my own diet and was enthusiastic about learning more. When I was in early high school, probably Year 8 or Year 9, I decided I wanted to work as a sports dietitian. I headed down that path, did a human movement degree at Deakin, and then did dietetics after that and got into nutrition from there. I was unemployed for a little while after I…
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24Apr 2017 by Aidan Muir
Joel Feren Q & A

Joel Feren Q & A

Other
Can you tell us a little bit about yourself? I’ve been a dietitian for four years. My background is in the biomedical sciences; I studied Behavioural Neuroscience and I completed my Honours in exercise physiology. For a while, I thought I might pursue a career in sport science. But it was a chance meeting with Karen Inge in 2008 that swayed me to become a dietitian. And I haven’t looked back since. You’ve got the whole #getyourmaninthekitchen thing, can you tell us a little bit about that? The campaign is about encouraging men to get back in the kitchen and have a crack at making their favourite meals. I believe that all foods can form part of a healthy diet. With that said, I also believe that any type of…
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10Apr 2017 by Aidan Muir
Rachel Ben-David Q & A

Rachel Ben-David Q & A

Other
Can you tell us a little bit about yourself? When I finished high school, I had no idea what I wanted to study. I was thinking about pursuing an arts degree when I stumbled across a seminar on nutrition at one of the university open days. Four and a bit years later (2016) I completed the Bachelor of Nutrition and Dietetics (Honours) at Monash University, excited and ready to start my career as a dietitian. Like many new graduate and young dietitians, I really struggled with the job search. It felt like I was constantly writing and submitting applications and attending interviews – but with no luck. Throughout my degree, I thought I had developed a great resume that would be attractive to employers – I had volunteered for several…
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04Apr 2017 by Aidan Muir
Chloe McLeod Q & A

Chloe McLeod Q & A

Other
Can you please tell us a little bit about yourself? I’ve lived in Sydney for the last five years, but I grew up in South Australia in the country. When I finished university, I decided that I would not stay in Adelaide, which is where I studied, and I got a job in Northeast Victoria working in the local health service there. I stayed there for a couple of years; I’d planned on a year, but I really liked the job and the people, so I stayed longer. And then I moved down to Melbourne for about a year before moving up to Sydney. I’ve always been interested in food and nutrition and how food impacts on the body, and I’ve got food intolerances myself to some degree, which is…
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24Mar 2017 by Aidan Muir
Tim Crowe Q & A

Tim Crowe Q & A

Other
Can you tell us a little bit about yourself? Well, my career has come from different directions. I started first as a research scientist; I spent a lot of my career in medical research, mostly laboratory-based. But I found I was much more interested in the role of nutrition in disease prevention, and also the role of nutrition in sports performance. I was reading a lot of papers in these areas, rather than actually doing the core research that I was employed to do and my career was focused upon. It led me into exploring what sort of careers were open to me, and the word “dietetics” kept coming up quite a bit. So, I bit the bullet and retrained as a dietitian, and for the last 16 or so…
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17Feb 2017 by Alana Willis
Alexandria Redman Q & A

Alexandria Redman Q & A

Other
Alex Redman, founder of the well-known blog, The Dietitians Pantry is an Accredited Practicing Dietitian. We are excited to have the opportunity to gain insight into her expert opinion on all things nutrition. Can you please tell us a little bit about your background and about your current role as a dietitian? I’m not one of those people that always knew they wanted to be a dietitian. However, I knew that I wanted to do something in the ‘health’ field so after high school I enrolled in the Bachelor of Health Science which allowed me to study a wide range of health subjects. By the end of the second year, I was loving all of the nutrition subjects I was doing and learning about how food can have such a…
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12Feb 2017 by Aidan Muir
Maree Ferguson Q & A

Maree Ferguson Q & A

Other
Can you tell us a little bit about yourself? Sure. Where to begin? I graduated as a dietitian just over 20 years ago, which is hard to believe, and I guess I always wanted to be a dietitian when I was at high school. I did home-ec and had a great teacher and loved the science of nutrition. At that time, Rosemary Stanton was on Burke's Backyard and was the only dietitian in the media. So everyone from that generation wanted to be like Rosemary. I did a science degree first and then did dietetics. It was an 18-month diploma at that point in time, and there was only QUT in Brisbane where you could do dietetics, not like all the courses that we’ve got now. Then I did placement…
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