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New clinic opens!

In addition to our clinics at Kinder Clinic Paragon and Leyden Hill, we are delighted to announce the opening of twice weekly clinics at Body with Soul at 45 Rochester Park.
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Eating disorders on the rise in older women and boys in the UK

Members of the Mental Health Group of the British Dietetic Association are reporting a change in the type of patients they are seeing.

Research shows that increasingly boys and men and older women are suffering with eating disorders and related body image problems.

Eating disorders comprise both psychological and physiological components and as a result treatments require an integrated understanding of the nutritional, physiological and psychological aspects of these disorders.

Registered dietitians play and essential role within multidisciplinary teams and are involved in the assessment, treatment and monitoring of patients with a range of eating disorders as well as providing patients with accurate and relevant information.

Poor eating patterns and unhealthy views surrounding food are primarily symptoms of an eating disorder but not generally the cause. Dietary concerns can be addressed by a dietitian leaving other health professionals in the team free to focus on the underlying or causative issues.

26th February 2008 –The British Dietetic Association
Reference: The Prevalence and Correlates of eating Disorders in the National Co-Morbidity Survey Publication 2007.

Large waist – an Alzheimer’s risk

The BBC reports on 27th March 2008, “A big waistline in your 40’s could almost triple the threat of dementia in old age, according to US research".

Researchers working for Kaiser Permanente, one of the biggest healthcare providers in the US looked at 6,583 people aged between 40 and 45 measuring their abdominal fat levels with callipers.

They then followed these people into their 70’s to see who became ill and who managed to maintain relatively good health.

They found that 20% of  people with the largest waistlines had a 270% greater risk of dementia than those with the smallest waists.

Where one carries the weight especially in midlife, appears to be an important predictor for dementia risk.

Tam Fry from the National Obesity Forum said that waist size was potentially a far better way to predict future illness than Body Mass Index. “the problem is that waist measurements have to be carried out very precisely in exactly the right spot.”

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