ANIEMEA-P-GB-202502951 | January 2026
Authors:
Nishti Udeh
Publish Date:
May 2024 | 3 min
Abstract:
In this insightful video, a paediatric dietitian shares expert tips on managing nutritional challenges in children with eating disorders, addressing key diagnostic issues, and emphasising the importance of mindfulness for effective patient collaboration.
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LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Understand the significance of early feeding history and parental influence in the nutritional management of children with eating disorders.
Recognise the key challenges in diagnosing eating disorders in children, including the role of co-morbidities like autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
Explore the benefits of mindfulness practice for clinicians to enhance compassion, empathy, and effective collaboration with patients.
AUTHOR(S) BIO
NISHTI UDEH
Freelance Dietitian, Nishti’s Choice
Nishti is an international registered dietitian and certified mindfulness teacher who has worked across both the NHS and the private sector since 2011. Her career started in the NHS where she worked with adults struggling with irritable bowel syndrome, obesity and type 2 diabetes.
She moved into paediatrics in 2013 and started out covering diabetes (type 1 and 2), the paediatric acute ward and paediatric clinics where she would see food allergy, preterm and tube fed babies.
Nishti has a deep passion for paediatric food allergy, in particular cow’s milk protein allergy and in recent years, mindfulness. She has won awards for her work in paediatric food allergy and for her work in diabetes.
Nishti is a consultant dietitian with Nuffield Hospitals and previously worked as the Lead Dietitian for an inpatient paediatric mental health hospital covering eating disorders and a psychiatric intensive care unit. She is the founder of Nishti’s Choice, an online consultancy platform whose ethos is to provide holistic health care to both children and parents.
