Liesbet Delport Dietitian

I am a registered Vitality assessment dietitians for Discovery Health (www.discovery.co.za), which means that, if you are on Discovery Medical Aid, you can have us do three nutritional assessments per year on you and the members of your family, for which you will obtain 1 000 Vitality points per visit and 3000 points in total.

I am CDE (Centre for Diabetes and Endocrinology) www.cdediabetes.co.za trained dietitians, which means that if you are a diabetic person on the CDE program, you can be referred by your doctor or nurse educator for a free, yearly consultation, as well as one or more follow up consultations, as requested by your doctor or nurse educator.

How do a dietitian keep up to date? A Dietitian (just like other professional people in their fields) have to keep abreast of the latest nutritional developments by attending congresses and seminars, and read scientific journals in order to obtain continuing professional development (CPD) points to be able to remain registered with the HPCSA (Health Professions Council of South Africa; www.hpcsa.co.za). I therefore also belong to ADSA (Association for Dietetics in South Africa; www.adsa.org.za), who organize many of these events. I frequently attend CPD events where we keep up to date with the most recent research and update our diets. I subscribe to the South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition (www.sajcn.co.za) as well as the journal of the Allergy Society of South Africa (www.allergysa.org).

Why should I not follow a fad diet or follow the dietary advice of someone who is not a dietitian? Fad diets look like an easy option, but they rarely produce long term results. To follow a fad diet or the advice of a person who is unqualified in compiling diets, means placing your precious health into an unqualified person’s hands and putting your health at risk.

Completed her BSc Dietetics degree and her diploma in Hospital Dietetics at the University of Stellenbosch in 1982, cum laude. She started practising privately as a dietitian in the Lowveld from 1983 and is still going strong. After having her own private practice for a few years, she has been working in partnership with Elizabeth since 2001 and in association with at Combrink & Delport Consulting Dietitians but have recently reverted back to her own practice under her own name . She has been involved in GI research for 25 years. In 2008 she completed her Master’s degree in nutrition at the University of Pretoria. She has co-authored ten nutrition-related books since 2000, and has written articles on various aspects of nutrition for magazines and scientific journals. She regularly presents talks and lectures on nutrition to both her peers and the public, nationally and internationally and has been interviewed on radio and television.

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