Online Dietitian UK

An online dietitian service in the UK that can provide you with wholly personalised dietary advice remotely! – You get the highest standards of care from the comfort of your own home.

While dietitian appointments have traditionally been held face to face, they are still every bit as effective when carried out online.

From the client’s point of view, the same reasons for opting for a dietitian’s services still exist, including.

• Personalised dietary advice
• An approach based on science and research. Dietitians are highly trained and work in tandem with other health professionals
• A service that takes a patient’s full medical history into consideration
• A dietitian service that can help you find the best diet for coping with severe medical conditions
• A diet that helps you lose weight healthily – and maintain this weight loss
• Plans for your diet that leave you more energised, feeling fitter and healthier

If you find a dietitian you are comfortable with, one who you can have an open and honest conversation with and can happily chat to on Zoom or similar, then you can enjoy the highest standards of dietary care.

Online Dietitian Services

A concern for some is that an online dietitian service in the UK is in some way a scaled back offering. It is dietitian light.

This is not the case, a skilled dietitian can offer the same high service regardless of whether you meet in person or via an online method.

Essentially, the dietitian’s job remains the same. They need to understand your goals; why you are seeking this dietary input,

They need to study your medical history, both any current issues that are perhaps the reason for help being sought and also historic concerns. Dietitians work in a science-based way, everything they suggest is scientifically proven to be for your benefit.

The dietitian also needs to know about you – what are your eating habits, and what is your lifestyle like, for instance how active are you? What foods do you like and what will you remain unwilling to eat – there is little point recommending a diet high in certain food stuffs you would be unwilling  to eat.

Perhaps sometimes people are a little more honest face to face – this is where your role as a paying client comes in, if you answer the dietitian’s questions openly and honestly then you will get the level of service you need and deserve.

Give this, and the dietitian can offer all these services and more besides:

Help with medical conditions.

If you have been diagnosed with a condition such as diabetes, high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, HIV, polycystic ovary syndrome or other serious condition then a dietitian’s help can be of huge value, indeed it can be of vital importance to maintaining quality of life. 

Often, the patient will have been referred to a dietitian as part of their treatment, an online appointment is wholly suitable – indeed, at the time of writing with Covid-19 precautions in place, a remote appointment might be deemed preferable, avoiding unnecessary travel and interactions.

Online help with weight loss

Helping clients to lose or gain weight as required to return to a healthier weight is a very common request for dietitians.

The dietitian will talk to you about the weight change you seek and then work with you to find a healthy way to achieve this, whilst retaining a healthy diet.

What a dietitian will not do is resort to unproven fads, or quick, crash diets. Everything will be science based, will take you individual needs and preferences into account and create a bespoke plan.

Online help with food intolerance

If you suspect you have a food intolerance but are unsure, the tests can be arranged and then you will have certainty – and, with the help of your dietitian, a plan to match.

For people with a known food intolerance, dietitian help can of course be hugely beneficial as it helps you to maintain a balanced diet full of all the nutrients you need, whilst respecting food intolerances.

Specialist Dietitian Advice For cancer treatment

Those going through cancer treatment benefit from symptom management and so want the best possible dietary advice so that they can optimise treatment. Please consult a registered dietitian.

Managing Digestive Problems

Issues such as IBS, constipation and coeliac disease are common conditions that any experienced dietitian would have helped with hundreds of times.

That, though, is not to say that each client does not have bespoke needs, the dietary advice given is still perfectly tailored to the individual.

Pregnancy Help

Whether you are looking to maximise your chances of becoming pregnant or are already pregnant and want the healthiest of diets, then seeking a dietitian’s services online can only be of benefit.

General health

Just want to feel that bit healthier? Want to know that what you are eating and drinking is keeping you in the best shape possible?

A few online dietitian appointments can put you on the best footing.

Online Dietitian Coaching

Key to a dietitian’s offering is to help the client understand the relationship between what they eat and drink and how it impacts their health, including the management of any specific health concerns.

The dietitian can therefore help the client well into the future, well beyond the point where online sessions might have ceased.

The dietitian can use their scientific knowledge and work in tandem with other health professionals to work out the diet that is most suited to your needs.

Because you will also come to understand why this diet is as it is and some of the science behind it, you will be empowered to make future decisions and to know the consequences of the dietary choices you make.

Part of the dietitian service is to arm you with practical knowledge that helps you in future. 

Arguably, this service is in some ways easier to provide via online dietitian services. Face to face meetings can be superb sessions, but there is a tendency to store up questions until next time. 

An online relationship lends itself more naturally to quick follow-up questions and answers, these not full sessions, just a quick question that the dietitian is happy to respond to.

Online Dietitian or Online Nutritionist

There is natural confusion between the services a dietitian offers and those a nutritionist can provide.

The two are very different.

Dietitian is a protected term, it can only be used by those who are specifically trained and accredited. It is a professional medical qualification and one that is only attained through years of study.

Nutritionist is not a protected term and so anyone can call themselves a nutritionist. There is no assurance that the advice a nutritionist offers is anything more than a fad.

A nutritionist can also only work with a healthy person, only a dietitian is qualified to help anyone with a medical condition whereby dietary help would be beneficial.

Dietitians are science backed and they are used to working in medical settings as part of a professional team

Best Online Dietitian UK

There are many fine dietitians in the UK, many offer online consultations.

However, Rachel Clarkson, the DNA Dietitian is one name to consider as she also incorporates the new science of Nutrigenomics, this on top of full traditional dietitian services.

Nutrigenomics factors in the individual’s genetic make-up, it gives a level of individuality to dietary advice that had previously been impossible, almost unimaginable.

With this level of insight, it is possible to see precisely which food intolerances a person has, including ones that would have been almost impossible to find – intolerances that nevertheless impact health and well being. 

The report will show how the individual should receive their nutrients, which food types they need more of and less of. It also shows likelihood of illnesses and injuries.

The full report – as can be seen in the sample – contains a level of information that would be overwhelming, this is where it combines with the skill of a dietitian who has specifically also trained in Nutrigenomics. Rachel Clarkson is one such dietitian.

View example report

The nutrigenomics, which is FDA approved and developed by world renowned professors, is not instead of the science of being a dietitian, it does not replace the skills and experience. Instead, it adds extra nuance, it ensures the dietitian has more information so as to tailor the diet that bit more and make it truly bespoke.

It is also not essential for any client of Rachel Clarkson’s to have the Nutrigenomics genetic assessment, it is simply an additional service.

A dietitian with a Masters from King’s College and huge experience both within the NHS and as a private practitioner, Rachel is a renowned member of the profession with an established Harley Street practice. Nutrigenomcs is an extra service which some clients will choose to consider.

About Rachel Clarkson, the DNA Dietitian 

As the DNA Dietitian, Rachel Clarkson is at the forefront of the move to genetics-based dietary advice.

She has universally five star reviews and two of her most recent testimonials state:

“Rachel helped me change my eating habits and have much more awareness of what I put into my body. My digestion has completely changed and I am very grateful! I feel so much more knowledgeable now and would recommend her to anyone not only wanting to help with the loss of weight, but also to have a healthy approach in life”

“Would highly recommend Rachel to anyone seeking to improve their 

health! I found my genetic analysis to be an empowering and motivating tool to make healthy changes using Rachel’s techniques. In just 3 sessions I feel more in control of my health and feel like I have the knowledge to filter through all of the poor nutritional information I hear so much in the media!”

If you want to see if Rachel is the dietitian for you, why not book a free 15-minute discovery call? 

This will be an opportunity to chat with Rachel, discuss your requirements and also find out more about  DNA diets and their benefits for you.

Book a free discovery call.