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Personal Consultation
Nutritional Concepts aims to educate people in the Carlow and Kilkenny areas regarding diet and nutrition based on current scientific evidence. Whether someone requires specific medical advice, weight loss advice, sports nutrition or healthy eating guidelines, each person is dealt with on an individual basis.
All consultations and information exchanged is strictly confidential.
Nutritional Concepts offers dietary advice on the following:
- Weight and metabolic syndrome
- Diabetes Type II
- Coeliac disease
- Gut or bowel problems
- High blood pressure
- High cholesterol
- Heart disease
- Vegetarian nutrition
- PCOS
- Osteoporosis & osteopenia
- Advice for cancer patients
- Medically diagnosed food allergies / intolerances
- General nutrition issues for all ages and life stages e.g. adolescence, pregnancy, menopause, older people and general family dietary concerns.
An initial consultation will take up to one hour and includes:
- A complete nutritional assessment
- A full diet history assessment
- Setting specific goals
- Individual education
- A tailored diet information booklet
Cancellation Policy
As a courtesy to us and other clients, if you need to cancel or change an appointment we request a minimum of 24 hours notice to avoid a minimum fee of 50% being charged. Failure to show for an appointment will result in the full cost of consultation being charged.
Corporate Services
Nutritional Concepts has a keen interest in health promotion and nutrition education talks and presentations to companies at health and wellbeing seminars and consultancy for food companies in the Carlow and Kilkenny areas.
In the changing world of work, motivated, well-qualified and above all, healthy employees are essential for competitiveness and capacity to innovate. Incorporating health promotion at your workplace makes sense. With dramatically rising health care costs, it is important to keep your employees healthy.
Healthy employees tend to have lower health care costs, fewer workers’ compensation claims and fewer absences. Investing in your employees’ health through a workplace health promotion program can save you money. Good health equates to higher productivity and reduced absenteeism.
A sample of the type of corporate services provided by Nutritional Concepts are summarised as follows:
Staff Focused:
- Presentations for the health and wellness of employees
- Helping an organisation develop their own nutrition initiatives
- Provision of an on-site dietetic clinic for staff.
School/Teacher/Parent Talks:
- Presentations, classroom or AGM, on various aspects of nutrition and healthy eating for children
- Assisting schools to develop healthy eating programmes and initiatives
Group Weight Management Programme:
Diet and weight loss is successfully achieved through a change of lifestyle and eating habits rather than a two week quick fix.
Nutritional Concepts offers the option for a group of between 5 and 10 people to receive a series of six nutritional talks on consecutive weeks or cookery demonstration workshops, thereby avoiding nutritionally inadequate diets and rapid and unsafe weight loss.
Sports Nutrition
Good nutrition is essential to perform at your best. It can help to delay fatigue, improve skill and concentration and prevent injury and illness. Good nutrition is essential to help you train, and recover from training and to help you compete and keep on competing.
Sabrina is eager to assist sports teams and GAA clubs particularly in the Carlow and Kilkenny areas to reach their peak performance by providing up-to-date scientific based sports nutrition education and advice to suit their specific training needs. Nutritional Concepts can provide up-to-date scientific based sports nutrition education to clubs, teams and coaches, sports specific. Advice throughout the season includes; events preparation, training diets, information on sports drinks and hydration.
Nutritional Concepts aims to meet athletes’ / sportspeoples’ needs for energy and nutrition in order to:
- Increase physical capacity
- Improve performance in training and competition
- Improve the effect of training sessions
- Reduce the effect of over training
- Improve the immune system and increase resistance to illness
- Improve the ability to concentrate
One to One Appointments
Sabrina will carry out a full nutritional assessment to ascertain whether you have sufficient intake of all the essential nutrients especially energy, carbohydrate, protein, iron, antioxidants and fluid to best help you train and perform. Sabrina will devise an individual meal plan to suit your needs for training and competition. She will also measure your weight, height, % body fat and waist circumference, calculate your BMI and advise you on how best to meet your own individual weight gain or weight loss goals.
Group Sessions
Sabrina works with sports clubs providing both education sessions and workshops for players and coaches alike. Topics available include:
- The essentials of sports nutrition
- Vital hydration strategies
- Learning how to get the timing and composition right for meals and snacks before, during and after exercise
- Dietary supplements
Latest Blog Posts
We post regulary to our blog regulary to our blog with lots of nutrition tips and advice, recipes etc.
How to Eat Out Healthily on Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day might mean that there is a chance you’ll be eating out. However, eating out usually means that we have little control over how the food is prepared or how large the portion is. Unlike packaged food, foods bought from cafes, restaurants etc. don’t have to carry nutritional information and so opting for the [...]
Posted on 13 February 2012 | 3:00 pm
How to Eat Your Way to Good Skin
Golden rules to keep your skin looking youthful – the best way to do this is by choosing the right diet. Eat your 5-a-day Fruit and vegetables contain powerful antioxidants that help to protect against the cell damage caused by free radicals, which include smoking, pollution and sunlight. Vitamin C is one of the most [...]
Posted on 30 January 2012 | 3:00 pm
Good Nutrition when Planning a Pregnancy
Good nutrition is important all through life and particularly so when trying to become pregnant. It is a good idea to make any changes to your diet and fitness in plenty of time before you become pregnant (at least 3-4 months beforehand). This helps to boost your fertility and makes sure that your stores [...]
Posted on 16 January 2012 | 3:00 pm
Psychological Tricks to Keep you on your New Year Diet
So it’s the time for New Year Resolutions again! As I researched the content for the first blog of 2012 I came across this video on the BBC website and decided to share it with you all. It gives us an insight into the psychological impact of sticking to New Year Resolutions. I hope this [...]
Posted on 2 January 2012 | 3:00 pm
Healthy Eating for the Christmas Party Season
It’s the Christmas party season again! How can we avoid putting on extra weight while having a great time? The following are some holiday eating tips to help you do just that so that you can still look good and be healthy in January. Don’t go to a party hungry. We often eat [...]
Posted on 19 December 2011 | 3:00 pm
Vitamins – part 2
Vitamins regulate a variety of essential bodily functions. They are crucial in many of our metabolic processes so that we can benefit from the energy in our foods. Vitamins are also very important in helping to build our bones, teeth, skin, blood and many other vital body tissues. Vitamins are classified as either water soluble [...]
Posted on 5 December 2011 | 3:00 pm
Vitamins – part 1
Vitamins regulate a variety of essential bodily functions. They are crucial in many of our metabolic processes so that we can benefit from the energy in our foods. Vitamins are also very important in helping to build our bones, teeth, skin, blood and many other vital body tissues. Vitamins are classified as either water soluble [...]
Posted on 21 November 2011 | 3:00 pm
Calories, so what are they?
A calorie is simply the unit that we use to measure energy. All foods have a ’calorific value’ and this is simply the amount of calories (energy) that a food will supply your body when it is eaten. Food labels on packaged foods usually list the energy content in two units; one is kcals (calories) the other is in kj (joules). [...]
Posted on 7 November 2011 | 3:00 pm
Pumpkin cake
Preparation: 10 mins | Cook: 1 hour Ingredients 200g plain flour 1 ¼ teaspoons bicarbonate of soda 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg 255g pureed pumpkin 200g dark brown soft sugar 110ml buttermilk 1 egg 2 tablespoons butter, softened Method Preheat oven to 180°C. Sift the flour, bicarbonate of soda, [...]
Posted on 24 October 2011 | 2:00 pm
College students – healthy eating tips
When you go to college or university it may be the first time you’ve lived away from home and been fully independent. To have enough energy to study and enjoy student life to the full you need to eat regularly and healthily! What does a healthy balanced diet really mean? Eat regularly and base your [...]
Posted on 10 October 2011 | 2:00 pm
About Sabrina
From Carlow, Sabrina graduated from Waterford Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science Honours Degree in General Nursing [..]
Sports Nutrition
Good nutrition is essential to perform at your best. It can help to delay fatigue, improve skill and concentration and prevent injury and illness. Good nutrition is essential to help you train, and recover from training and to help you compete and keep on competing. Sabrina is eager to assist your team, or GAA club reach its peak performance.
Nutritional Concepts provides up-to-date scientific based sports nutrition education and advice to suit their specific training needs. Nutritional Concepts can provide up-to-date scientific based sports nutrition education to clubs, teams and coaches, in the Carlow and Kilkenny areas. Advice throughout the season includes; events preparation, training diets, information on sports drinks and hydration.
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