- Claire Baseley • Registered Nutritionist
16th June 2017
Hotel buffet, how we love thee. Jelly for breakfast, 24/7 burgers and the all-you-can eat dessert buffet… Sound like culinary heaven or a recipe for disaster? I’ve recently returned from my honeymoon in Mexico where we stayed in a beautiful, all-inclusive hotel in which there was a limitless supply of food and drink, 24 hours a day. The food was pretty good quality; a lot of it excellent and every palate, however fussy, was catered for. There were a la carte restaurants serving Thai, Italian, Japanese or Mexican specialities as well as the ubiquitous buffet restaurant, in which every night you could dine on any cuisine under the sun. Now I’m not here to tell you about my honeymoon […]
10th April 2017
The times they are a-changin’. OK so to Jo(e) Public, the world of nutrition probably remains largely the same, a smorgasboard of Instagrammed avocado on toast and inexplicably complicated diets needlessly eliminating one or other food group for optimal ‘wellness’. But in the world of nutrition experts, endlessly battling pseudoscience and fads from every angle, there has been a small shift, a disturbance in clean eating’s force, maybe. As we see some of the myths surrounding clean eating being debunked, are we witnessing the first stages of a triumph of evidence over pseudoscience? Social media – a goldmine of nutribollox It’s very easy to be taken in, especially when the sphere of health on social media is so dominated […]
4th April 2017
Tonight a new food TV series begins on ITV called Save Money: Good Food. The show, starring presenter Susanna Reid and chef Matt Tebbutt, aims to help families eat well for less with tips on meal planning, cooking and budgeting. I helped compare supermarket own label value foods against the more premium, branded options with some surprising results! So when you buy a super cheap version of a food, are you really compromising on health or taste or could you be bagging yourself a healthy bargain? Cornflakes This breakfast staple is actually nutritionally very similar, whichever brand you buy. All consist of mostly maize with some added sugar, salt, vitamins and minerals. What’s really interesting though, is the value-range […]
24th March 2017
This is one for the students who may be thinking about studying to become a nutritionist either straight out of school or later in life. I’m a Registered Nutritionist and I’ve worked for the Food Standards Agency and in the food industry before setting up my own business. I now have a freelance career working mainly with food manufacturers and the media and I also blog, vlog and am active on social media. I do careers talks at many universities and meet lots of really enthusiastic students already studying for degrees so if that’s you, read on for tips on job hunting and on the different roles a nutritionist can play. If you’re still deciding and maybe wondering what course […]