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Christina Turner – Assistant Professor at Bond University and one of the expert presenters of the HealthCert Professional Diploma of Medical Nutrition Management – delivers this engaging and interesting podcast about weight-neutral dietetics, also known as the non-diet approach.

In the podcast, Christina explains what the non-diet approach to weight management actually means and how it works.

The non-diet approach is a set of strategies that medical professionals can use to support patients in their healthcare, with an overall aim of helping patients to improve their health without necessarily changing their body weight.

The non-diet approach has a strong focus on supporting patients to eat a wide variety of foods to achieve nutritional quality, rather than prescribing meal plans or portion sizes for weight loss.

Christina also talks about some non-diet strategies including mindful eating, such as eating with our five senses, as well the Health At Every Size movement, and so much more.

Listen to the full podcast now:

Christina Turner is an Accredited Practising Dietitian with almost 19 years’ experience working across a variety of settings including acute dietetics, community outpatients, public health and community development. More recently she has specialised in eating disorders and established SOL nutrition, a non-diet private practice in northern New South Wales, Australia.

Christina is currently a Senior Teaching Fellow and Internships Lead within the Master of Nutrition and Dietetic Practice Program at Bond University. She teaches into the clinical and communication/counselling subjects including eating disorders, weight-inclusive practice and non-diet nutrition, cognitive-behavioural therapy and motivational interviewing topics.

If you have any questions for Christina Turner, we invite you to join the free HealthCert Community at community.healthcert.com and comment your questions on this post.

Show notes

Association for Size Diversity and Health (ASDAH): https://www.sizediversityandhealth.org/

Health at every size Australia: https://www.haesaustralia.org.au/

Find a weight neutral health care provider: https://www.haesaustralia.org.au/find-a-provider

Learn more in the online Professional Diploma Program in Medical Nutrition