Dietetics

Focus health drive on social media, survey says

18 Jun 2012

The public impression of young Hongkongers is that they eat plenty of fast food and snacks, but a university survey shows they are skilled in understanding nutritional information on food labels...

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Turning the tables

9 Feb 2012

My best friends when I was 10 were Michael and Moazzam. One ended up a chartered surveyor, the other ended up in Guantanamo Bay.

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Quiz

10 Jan 2012

The numbers don't lie: we need to pull up our socks when it comes to health. The University of Hong Kong's School of Public Health revealed last month that Hong Kong as a whole scored a passing...

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Towards better eating habits

21 Aug 2011

Xiong Miao, now 30, left her home in rural Jiangxi province in 2004 to pursue her dream job in Beijing. Never having been to college, she took nutrition courses in the capital, and hard work...

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Dietitian with a taste for social media and networking

7 Aug 2011

Name: Charmain Tan
Job: Registered dietitian and nutrition consultant

Where did you go to school?

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Rules on quality thought key as private care grows

9 Jul 2011

More patients are likely to turn to private medical services under the government's proposed medical insurance scheme, a senior medical source says, and that means the government should make...

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Opinion

Workers pay the price for our bargains

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Howard Winn

Barry Cheung makes waves in Moscow

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Patients mostly happy, except with the food

A lack of information about medical treatment and poor meals are what patients are most commonly unhappy about at public hospitals, a Hospital Authority survey found.

However, most...

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Nutritionists versus dietitians: there's a healthy difference between them

With growing public awareness of the importance of good nutrition, many of us choose to seek professional advice on how to improve our diets. But should you go to a dietitian or a nutritionist?...

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Tailor-made care gives hope to mentally ill

Thirty-six-year-old Alice became a recluse for more than two decades after being diagnosed with a serious mental illness.

When she did leave home it was usually to see the doctor...

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Untrained dietitians put patients at risk

More untrained people are working as dietitians, endangering the health of patients.

A survey conducted in February and last month found that 60 out of 100 dietitians' websites...

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letters

Debating is very educational

Many of us have taken part in or watched debating competitions. We can learn a lot from debating.

Not only does it teach reading,...

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Experts on food for body and soul

In Chinese, the same word is used to describe a nutritionist and dietitian, but people should be careful of nutritionists abusing this language similarity.

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