Diet and the gut: Establishing treatments, improving patient care and tackling trends
Diet is a major modifiable factor in preventing, maintaining and optimising gut health. Chronic constipation has its documented challenges when it comes to diagnosis and assessment in clinical practice, particularly with the symptoms patients believe to be important in diagnosis differing from the diagnostic criteria.
Join Nutrition Society Cuthbertson Medal Winner, Dr Eirini Dimidi, as she focuses on diet and the gut, establishing dietary treatments and tools to improve patient clinical care, and tackling popular nutrition trends.
You will discuss the latest evidence on various dietary management approaches of chronic constipation, derived from large systematic reviews and meta-analyses. In addition, novel digital approaches for delivering dietary advice to irritable bowel syndrome patients will be presented, highlighting the efficacy of personalised mobile applications over traditional leaflets. There will also be the opportunity to examine the potential benefits of fermented foods and plant food diversity on gut health and disease, despite the scarcity of high-quality evidence in these areas.
What will I gain from this webinar?
- Be able to describe the challenges in diagnosing and assessing chronic constipation.
- Have an understanding of the evidence on the dietary management of chronic constipation, critically discuss the strength of the evidence, and inform clinical practice using the latest research.
- Understand and critically appraise the evidence behind popular nutrition trends, particularly fermented foods and plant food diversity.
Endorsement No EN175.80
Curriculum
- 1 Section
- 2 Lessons
- Lifetime
- Diet and the gut: establishing treatments, improving patient care and tackling trends2
Instructor
Dr Eirini Dimidi is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Nutritional Sciences, King’s College London. She has been a registered dietitian and nutritionist since 2011, after completing a BSc in Nutrition and Dietetics and a MSc in Clinical and Public Health Nutrition. This was followed by the completion of a PhD from King’s College London where she investigated the use and effectiveness of probiotics in people with chronic constipation.
Dr Dimidi is leading research on nutrition-based interventions, including fibre, prebiotics, probiotics, plant foods, and the low FODMAP diet, in gut function and dysfunction (e.g. constipation). She is also investigating the mechanisms through which nutritional interventions affect immune and mental health via the gut microbiome. Other research interests include exploring patients’ experiences and perceptions of gut diseases.
She has published in a number of peer-reviewed nutrition and gastroenterology journals, and has presented her work in national and international conferences. Dr Dimidi has been awarded The Nutrition Society Cuthberton Medal 2023, the ISAPP Glenn Gibson Early Career Research Prize 2022, and the British Dietetic Association Rising Star 2021 for her research on diet and gut health.
