WELCOME TO . . . Welcome to this first issue of 2019. Not meaning to scare the pants off you, or fast forward this year away, but we only have eight more issues of NHD before we hit 2020! I remember when 2020 seemed like a lifetime away, yet here we are, racing towards it quicker than you can say Network Health Digest. Although 2020 will be a huge year for many, 2019 certainly won’t be overshadowed by it, especially where NHD is concerned. We have another exceptional array of features planned throughout the year, which will focus on the here and now in dietetics and nutrition, providing you with plenty of valuable information and insights. We can’t be any more in the here and now this month, with predictions of the top diets for 2019. Turn to page 9 for Emma Berry’s report on the trending diets for the year ahead. Diabetes mellitus is a condition hard not to come across during your career as a dietitian or nutritionist. In the UK. We have around 4.6 million patients living with diabetes and, according to Diabetes UK, this figure could reach 5 million by 2025. Leona Courtney provides us with a thorough look at this widespread condition in our Cover Story, along with the medical and nutritional interventions available. Conditions and disorders feature big in our February issue. Dr Mabel Blades joins us this month to provide us with information on faltering growth, highlighting the causes, recommendations and guidance, as well as the assessment and management of this complex issue. In her second article in this issue, Mabel provides an overview of maldigestion and how this can be differentiated from malabsorption. And have you come across orthorexia nervosa? It’s a
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dietitian growing concern, says Alice Fletcher, registered for 12 years, with manifesting in obsessional behaviour experience of adult around food choices, where a patient and paediatric dietetics. will base their eating on ‘pure food’. With orthorexia, eating clean to the extreme can be far from healthy. Our clinical article in this issue, comes from Louise Walsh, looking at the advantages and disadvantages of bolus feeding, as well as its practical aspects. Louise If you have important news or shares her insights research updates to share with into ensuring patients NHD, or would like to send a letter are supported and to the Editor, please email us at confident when bolus info@network healthgroup.co.uk feeding is required. We would love to Enhancing your skills hear from you. and learning doesn’t end there, as we welcome Harriet Smith to NHD with her first article delving in to the world of mindfulness, asking what it is and how we can become mindful eaters. Then we turn to our regular columns including IMD Watch brought to us this month by Suzanne Ford, NSPKU Dietitian and Anita MacDonald, Specialist Metabolic Dietitian, who calculate the cost of a special diet, with particular reference to the low-protein diet. Face to Face is a regular favourite from Ursula Arens who, this time, interviews Dr Paul Sacher, co-founder of MEND (Mind, Exercise, Nutrition . . . Do it!). Sit back, relax and slow down time with your copy of NHD! Emma
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