Expert Nutrition Articles
Expert articles on PCOS, pregnancy nutrition, sports nutrition, and expat healthy eating from dietitian Tugba Kaslioglu Yurik.
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Long COVID Nutrition: An Honest Dietitian's Guide to Eating When Your Energy Has Gone
If you caught an infection that everyone around you shook off in a week, and you are still unwell months later, you already know the shape of this. The exhaustion that sleep does not touch. The crash that arrives a day or two after something entirely ordinary — a supermarket…
Read MoreBlood Sugar Crashes: A Dietitian's Guide to Feeling Shaky, Sweaty and Exhausted After Eating
You know the sequence by now. An hour or two after eating — often after a breakfast that felt perfectly reasonable, or a sandwich eaten at your desk — something turns. Your hands are unsteady. There is a film of sweat on your back that has nothing to do with the room. Your heart…
Read MoreDysphagia Diet: Eating Well With Swallowing Difficulties After a Stroke or With a Neurological Condition
Somebody has come home from hospital with a folded sheet of paper about textures, a tin of thickening powder, and an instruction to avoid thin fluids. Perhaps that somebody is you. Far more often, at eleven at night, this is being read by a wife, a husband or an adult daughter…
Read MoreDiet for Brain Health: An Honest Dietitian's Guide to Memory, Ageing and Dementia Risk
There are two reasons people arrive at this question, and I see both. The first is that you have watched someone you love lose their memory — a mother who stopped recognising the kitchen she cooked in for forty years, a father who asked the same question six times in one…
Read MoreDiet After a Heart Attack, and Eating Well With Heart Failure: A Dietitian's Honest Guide
This article is written for a particular few weeks. The discharge letter is still on the kitchen table, folded. There is a paper bag of medications with names you had never said out loud a fortnight ago, and a card somewhere with a cardiac rehabilitation appointment on it.…
Read MorePancreatitis Diet: Eating Again After Acute and Chronic Pancreatitis
If you have just come home from hospital after an episode of pancreatitis, you have probably arrived with a discharge sheet, a follow-up appointment, and a kitchen that now looks like a minefield. You were nil by mouth for a while, or on a drip, and the pain before that was…
Read MoreThyroid Nodule Diet: An Honest Guide to Nodules, Goitre and the Iodine Question
Almost nobody goes looking for a thyroid nodule. You went in for something else — a neck scan after a whiplash injury, an ultrasound of your carotid arteries, a routine check that became an unexpected phone call. Then someone used the word nodule, which sits uncomfortably close…
Read MoreUterine Fibroids Diet: An Honest Dietitian's Guide to Eating Well With Fibroids
You may have found out last week, during a scan you went in for about something else entirely, and left holding a word you had never had to think about. Or you may have spent years soaking through protection in a couple of hours, planning journeys around toilets, keeping spare…
Read MorePerimenopause Diet: A Dietitian's Guide to Eating Well in the Years Before Menopause
If you are in your late thirties or your forties and your body has stopped behaving the way it used to, you have probably already been through a particular sequence. Your cycle shortened, or lengthened, or arrived twice in one month. You stopped sleeping properly in the week…
Read MoreDo Detox Diets Work? An Honest Look at Cleanses, Juices and "Resetting" Your Body
If you have ever bought a seven-day cleanse, ordered a box of detox tea, or stood in your kitchen on a Sunday evening deciding that tomorrow you would finally reset everything, this makes complete sense. You have not been gullible. The pull towards a cleanse usually arrives…
Read MoreOsteoarthritis and Joint Pain: What Nutrition Can and Cannot Do — Osteoarthritis diet
If you have been told there is osteoarthritis in your knee, your hip, your hands or your spine, you have probably already been handed a pile of food advice — cut out all nightshades, give up sugar, avoid bread, drink something alkaline, take collagen, buy this turmeric blend.…
Read MoreHow to See a Dietitian in the Netherlands: The Huisarts Route, the Verwijzing, and Where Online Care Fits — Dietitian Netherlands referral
If you have moved to the Netherlands from Turkey, Germany, or almost anywhere with a walk-in specialist culture, you probably discovered something confusing the first time you wanted nutrition support: you could not simply telephone a diëtist and book. You searched for how to…
Read MoreHow to Read Food Labels in the Netherlands Without Letting Them Run Your Life
If you have moved here recently, you have probably had the aisle moment. You are standing in Albert Heijn holding a tub of yoghurt, turning it over hoping the back is in English, and it is not. There is a coloured letter on the front that everyone else seems to understand, an…
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