WHITNEY ATKINSON
Accredited Practising Dietitian
Advanced Nutrition specialises in providing a range of dietetic services to people in Ballarat and surrounding region.
OUR VISION
To be the leading provider of personalised evidence-based nutrition advice for the individuals of Ballarat and surrounding region to reduce their risk of chronic disease development or progression.
OUR VALUES
Integrity, Discretion, Distinction, Compassion.
WHAT IS A DIETITIAN?
Accredited Practising Dietitians (APD’s) are the qualified experts in nutrition. Food is the fuel for our bodies. Dietitians apply the art and science of human nutrition to help people understand the relationship between diet and disease.
In Australia all Dietitians are also Nutritionists. However, Nutritionists without a Dietetics qualification cannot take on the specialized role of a Dietitian. A Dietitian can help you to make dietary choices to attain and maintain health, and to prevent illness and treat specific conditions.
AUSTRALIA TODAY
There is increasing interest in ‘health foods’, supplement suppliers, often-ambiguous marketing of foods and nutrition advice across many forms of media, all providing nutrition information to consumers. With the luxury of readily available and diverse foods, teamed with sedentary lifestyles and consumer confusion about nutrition, we are seeing increasing rates of overweight, obesity, diabetes, heart disease, kidney disease and other chronic diseases.
ADVANCED Nutrition provides only evidence-based nutrition advice, quashing the myths and revealing the facts to support and empower you to improve your health. ADVANCED Nutrition supports our bariatric clients through Central Highlands Surgeons in a non-judgemental and affirming way. We encourage a long-term relationship with food that does not deprive of any food types, and instead focuses on respecting foods that nourish.
WHAT CAN DIETITIANS HELP WITH?
Assisting with weight loss is just one area of a dietitian’s expertise. We are a Dietetics service specialising in chronic disease and can also help you with a wide range of conditions.
See below link for full list of conditions and the benefits of involving an APD.
Whitney holds a Postgraduate in Sports Nutrition (Australian Institute of Sport, Sports Deititians Association Canberra), Postgraduate Course in Renal Nutrition (Royal Adelaide Hospital), Master of Dietetics (Deakin University), Graduate Certificate of Nutrition (Deakin University) and a Bachelor of Science (Melbourne University) with a major in Anatomy.
Whitney has worked across clinical, community and health promotion areas for Western Australia Country Health Service, Monash Health and Hepburn Health Service. Now in private practice, Whitney founded ADVANCED Nutrition in Ballarat, and enjoys supporting the health outcomes of the community in which she grew up. Whitney worked at Central Highlands Surgeons from their rooms, to support their weight loss clients from 2015 to 2021 and is currently on leave.
Whitney is focused on making her clients feel comfortable and strives to provide tailored, realistic nutrition advice. She also enjoys sports (hiking, Pilates, gym classes), cooking, travel, a great drop of wine and general carry-on with friends and family.
Whitney is a registered provider with Medicare, Department of Veteran Affairs (DVA) and provides services under *private health insurance – *check your level of cover for Allied Health.