Profile

I am an assistant professor in dietetics at the University of Nottingham. This job involves teaching student dietitians how to help people to manage their illness using food and nutrition. Some of my work involves visiting hospitals to see students who are working with dietitians and placements other parts are linked to understanding how food can be best used to maintain health and reduce risk of diseases like diabetes and heart disease.

My research has tried to look at how chocolate may effect people with diabetes, this work used specially formulated dark chocolate to reduce the risk of heart disease in patients. More recently I have worked in weight loss studies, trying to see if providing people with food helped them to lose weight more than telling them what to do.

Outside of work I cook alot, especially bread along with many experimental recipes. Together with my wife and two children, we enjoy judo, although we never fight each other.

No two days are the same, mostly attempting to find out how food and nutrition can be used to improve the health of people.

Often this is linked to teaching and discussing ideas of nutrition with students at university and trying to piece the various bits of science together to build meal plans for people with a variety of health conditions and diseases.

Some of my research is based on reviewing other peoples reports of experiments and studies, in the past I have worked on clinical trials some which used drugs but mostly ones involving foods.