Dietitian
Mary Sidrak is available for consultation Friday mornings 9:30am - 1:30pm.
Please speak with our Reception team who will assist you with an appointment.
Accredited Practising Dieticians: Your nutrition experts
This service is available to provide nutritional advice and follow up with all types of individuals. Here at SMC, you will see a University qualified and clinically experience Accredited Practising Dietitian (APD) who have been trained to provide information and education that is relevant to your needs and based on the most recent scientific evidence. Our dietitian has 25 years of experience in managing clients with different clinical nutrition needs as an outpatient or inpatient in public & private hospitals.
What is an Accredited Practising Dietitian?
What you consume through food has been proved in many areas to affect your health. APDs translate scientific information about nutrition into practical advice about what to eat. APDSs:
Assess your current nutritional and medical status
Listen to and assess your nutritional needs
Develop a personalised eating plan that adheres to nutritional guidelines
Educate you on how food can affect your health
Provide you with information on
Reading food labels
Health eating
Choosing the best food when shoppping & eating out; and
Health ways to prepare food
Help you set and achieve your goals
Sort out nutritional facts from fiction
All this is available to help you embrace better health
Why see a Dietitian?
This service is available to a wide range of clients. You don’t have to have a diet related or other health problems to make use of this service. If you are interested in leading a holistic lifestyle that promotes better health and helps prevent disease, then we can help you too.
Our Dietitian is able to help clients in the following areas and more.
General healthy eating and well-being
Diabetes - Type 1 & Type 2
Weight loss or control
High cholesterol and blood lipids
High blood pressure
Insulin resistance e.g. pre-diabetes in Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome
Gastrointestinal disorders e.g. Coeliac disease, IBS
Arthritis e.g. Gout
Food allergies & intolerance
Renal diseases e.g. Kidney stones, Chronic kidney disease