Dietician job: Hospital meals need to be healthy and appetising
Wednesday 13th October 2010
Those looking for a dietician job have been told that more needs to be done to make hospital meals more healthy and appetising.
Jacqui Lowdon, paediatric dietician and spokesperson for the British Dietetic Association, said that while food in health establishments needs to be nourishing, it is also important that it is tasty enough to be eaten.
"We do certainly have to have on the menu some of the higher calorie type foods that maybe we wouldn't be encouraging children to eat on a daily basis. Having taken that into consideration, we do need to make sure that it is [as] nourishing and nutritious as possible," she stated.
Ms Lowdon went on to say that as a paediatric dietician she welcomes any introduction on producing legal nutritional standards for all food served in the public sector.
Her words came after research from the Consensus Action on Salt and Health (Cash) and Sustain found that hospital meals are failing to meet nutritional standards for salt and saturated fat.
Written by Megan Smith
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