Christelle Hoffman Dietitians

16/06/2025

🏆🏅Youth day celebrations🏅🏆

Did you know? 🧗🏾1/10 teens supper from depression

Nutrition guidance:
🤸🏻‍♂️Gut-brain axis: the gut is directly linked to your brain
🍏By eating healthy you can prevent certain forms of depression
⛹️‍♀️By doing 30min moderate exercise most days of the week, you could lower your risk for depression with 26%

12/06/2025

🥑Elderly (older than 60years) need a well balanced to prevent malnutrition:
-small frequent meals🥪
-protein with every main meal🍗
-fiber rich foods🥗

Visit a dietitian to assess muscle mass and give you a healthy mealplan.

08/03/2025

Happy International Women’s Day 💞🪄✨

10/02/2025

Which sugars are healthy?😎🎂🧁🍰🍡🍭🍮🍫

Are artificial sweeteners dangerous for my health?🍨

Can a diabetic use brown sugar instead of white sugar and still be well controlled?

Below is a nice article answering all of the above questions.
See our image for a summary🍎

https://sweetlife.org.za/a-diabetics-guide-to-sweeteners/

30/01/2025

Prostate cancer
Did you know that a study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology reported that men diagnosed with low grade prostate cancer that followed a low omega6 and high omega3 diet, had a 15% decrease in the cancer marker Ki-67 index?

The diet they followed contained more omega3 rich diet sources (pilchards, sardines, salmon, etc) and drinking an omega3 supplement AND
By decreasing the omega6 content of their diet (less cookies, chips, processed food, fried food)

Healthy eating is very important, not only as treatment of disease, but also as prevention🥳

24/01/2025

What do you think about intermittent fasting?

The one meal a day diet trend (OMAD) is getting more popular, let's look at what studies showed:
1. 100% of vitamins and mineral needs can't be supplied with a single meal a day, leading to nutrient deficiencies
2. Signs and symptoms: clients complain of feeing bloated, tired and not mentally focused.
3. Increase in blood pressure
4. Increase in total and LDL cholesterol
5. Deficiencies in protein
6. 30% increase in all cause mortality
7. 83% increased risk in cardiovascular motality
8. Blood sugar imbalances

Eating variety diet, like the Mediterranean and Dash diet, is a much better longterm sustainable option🥳

16/01/2025

Eggs cost about R3 per egg (R89 for tray of 30eggs) and contain a lot of nutritious componds🍳
They are among some of the cheapest (if not the cheapest) sources of protein and by adding them to a starch, your meal becomes low GI, keeping you fuller for longer😁

Did you know?
=Egg white contains 3.6g protein in a large egg
=Egg yolk contains 2.7g protein, fat soluble vitamins (vit A, D, E, K), choline (brain health) and carotenoids (lutein and zeaxanthin)
So in order to receive the best benefit, eat the entire egg😉

See info graph below for more information 👇

16/12/2024

10/12/2024

Fast food meals in South Africa with the most kilojoules 🫣

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/qXEsRhDgHiDnwBqb/

25/11/2024

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🩼Ozempic works in two ways:
- Firstly, to make one feel full sooner than normal, so one eats less.
- Secondly, it boosts insulin levels higher, so that blood glucose levels drop a bit.

This, in turn, stimulates an increase in two things:
1. Burning of fat to convert to glucose (great!). BUT ALSO:
2. Burning of muscle mass to convert to glucose (not great).
This process is called GLUCONEOGENESIS. (glucose- new-making of)… making NEW glucose inside the body because none is available to eat.
So, the person is successfully losing fat nicely, but because the drug targets BLOOD GLUCOSE LEVELS, more muscle mass is actually being burned than fat! 😳
It’s why the KILOGRAM losses on the scale look so impressive. But only some of that weight loss is fat.
The rest is muscle. 😔
So what, you may say? 🤷🏻‍♀️
Less muscle 💪🏼? Less ability to burn calories 🔥.
This is the worry when stopping the drug: the rebound weight gain… this result will often mean someone ending up with a HIGHER fat PERCENTAGE than before they took the drug.

Just taking the drug, losing, and stopping it, is something to be careful of.🥺

See a metabolic dietician who can help you work on muscle retention and rebuilding, without the rebound fat gain that seems inevitable with so little muscle mass and low metabolism.

(011) 702-8510

05/09/2024

Start a healthy lifestyle today and do it with the support of your fellow work colleagues. Motivate each other, make healthy choices together!