Black Bag Article Nutritank:Nutritank Bristol sparks a movement
Around 80% of patients who walk into general practice have conditions related
Around 80% of patients who walk into general practice have condition(s) related to poor to poor diet or lifestyle choices. We are living for longer, but spending more diet or lifestyle choices. We are living for longer, but spending more years in ill health years in ill health with stressful ‘on-the-go’ lives, eating increasing portions of with stressful ‘on-the-go’ lives, eating increasing portions of nutritionally poor food and nutritionally poor food and lack of physical activity. Obesity and lifestyle-related lack of physical activity. Obesity and lifestyle-related disease is affecting quality of life disease is affecting quality of life and putting the healthcare systems under and putting the healthcare systems strain.causes Nutrition and lifestyle are the leading strain. Nutrition and lifestyle areunder the leading of disease but medical causes of disease but are medical students in and doctors are unconfident at To advising students and doctors underconfident advising patients on the matter. patients in the To restore the eroded relationship between lifestyle and restore the matter. eroded relationship between food, lifestyle and health infood, the modern healthworld in theand modern equip future doctors withtackle the tools needed equip world futureand doctors with the tools needed these issues,tackle Bristolthese issues, Bristolstudents, medical Ally students, and Iaincreated Broadley created Nutritank… medical Jaffee Ally and Jaffee Iain Broadley Nutritank. This lifestyle medicine hub, hub, is taking a dual approach to ensuring nutrition is embedded This lifestyle medicine is taking a dual approach to ensuring nutrition is into the medicalinto curriculum, targeting policyNutritank makers as well as ensuring students embedded the medical curriculum. targets policy makersthat as well as ensuring that students are empowered within their university communities are empowered within their university communities via their NutritankSoc. Though all via their NutritankSoc. Though all local our work, maintain our core values:the UK, we our work whether, it be national or at a level we in our 23 branches across maintain our core values:
The past year the national committee has hosted a Sustainable Health and Wellbeing in partnership with College of Medicine, worked with the British Dietetics Association to create a bespoke nutrition course for students as well as collaborating with Dr Hazel Wallace (The Food Medic, check out her 18
