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Dip. Baldrís Nacente, Julia

Experta en Educació Diabetològica i Nutrició

No. registered: 080813370

Diploma in nursing, specialist in mental health and postgraduate in dietetics and human nutrition (dietitian). For 15 years, responsible for the health and dietary education consultation at the Gaudi de L'Aliança center and at the Amedics center, monitoring all chronic diabetic patients and taking the course of their insulinization. Carrying out all types of diets, therapeutic, slimming, anti-uricemic, anti-cholesterol, etc. Related to dietetics, I have participated in diabetes continuing education courses and, as a trainer in HUSC's continuing education in health and dietetic education.

What is dietetics?

Dietetics is the discipline that studies food regimes, in health or in illness, and which allows establishing, in a scientific way, the food ration or diet suitable for a person, according to their work or state of health.

What dietetics aims to achieve is well-being.

Services we offer

we design personalized diets and we carry out the corresponding periodic controls.

We prepare diets to control weight and improve health, with the foods of the Mediterranean diet.

If you have problems with cholesterol and triglycerides, we indicate the diet and the measures to follow to improve your analytical results.

If you have diabetes, with diabetes education you will learn to adopt the appropriate diet and measures for regulate your blood sugar.

Diabetes education alsoteach the patient to control their treatment, whether it is with oral antidiabetics or insulin.

Diabetic patient

We control the coefficient T/B of the patient, which allows us to know how his distal arterial circulation is, and we teach him to control all the complications of diabetes.

In the gestational diabetes, we explain to the pregnant woman the appropriate diet, capillary controls of glycemia and ketone bodies.

We design diets rich in calcium, especially for the menopausal woman; in iron, for the puerperium; in magnesium, for fibromyalgia, etc. We prepare diets for hypertension and explain the healthy habits to follow.

We also make the famous one hyperprotein diet, but we adapt it to the patient's needs, thus avoiding putting their health at risk.

What is the difference between endocrinology and dietetics?

The doctor endocrine specializes in the study, diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the endocrine system, which is responsible for producing the hormones that regulate many functions of our body, such as its growth, development and metabolic functioning.

The endocrine doctor also tells us the right nutrition for each patient, but it is the dietician who elaborate the adapted diets and who recommends healthy measures.

Frequently asked questions

Do I have to keep dieting if I take cholesterol pills?
Yes, in dyslipidaemias the diet is part of the treatment (represents the 60%) and allows better regulation of the medicinal treatment.
Can I do any diet to lose weight?
Any standard diet can be followed, but it must always be adapted to the patient's work, illnesses and culinary tastes, and try to make it as balanced as possible.
How long should I diet to lose weight?
You have to lose weight little by little, with a diet adapted to the type of person, work and culinary tastes. Once a healthy weight is achieved—which takes into account the patient's desired weight, the ideal weight and the therapeutically recommended weight—the diet and weight must be maintained for one year.
Can everyone do a high protein diet?
The pure hyperprotein diet is not recommended in any case. What can be advised is the increase in the percentage of proteins in the diet, as long as the patient does not suffer from conditions such as diabetes, hyperuricemia, renal failure, etc.
Is the vegetarian diet complete for health?
Yes, he has no deficiency. You just need to know how to combine vegetable proteins well to cover the nutritional needs of the human body.

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