General information here, your own advice in the room.

1. General information only

Everything on this website is general information written by a registered dietitian. It is not a diagnosis, a treatment plan or advice about your own health. Individual advice comes only from a consultation, once your history, results and medicines have been reviewed.

2. Your GP comes first

A dietitian works alongside your GP and your specialists, not instead of them. Don’t stop, start or change a prescribed medicine because of something you read here, and see your GP about new or worsening symptoms, such as blood in your stool, weight loss you can’t explain or difficulty swallowing.

3. Medicines and long-term conditions

Some changes in diet interact with treatment. If you take insulin or other medicines that lower blood sugar, eating less carbohydrate can cause a hypo. Leafy greens such as chard are high in vitamin K, which matters if you take warfarin. Potassium-rich foods such as beans, potatoes and beetroot matter in kidney disease. Ask your doctor or pharmacist before a big change.

4. In an emergency

This site and the studio’s phone and email are not monitored for emergencies. Call 999 or go to A&E if you or someone else is in danger. For urgent advice that isn’t an emergency, call NHS 111 or use 111.nhs.uk.

5. Eating disorders

Chard Nutrition does not treat eating disorders on its own. If you have an eating disorder, or think you might, please speak to your GP, who can refer you to a specialist service. The charity Beat (beateatingdisorders.org.uk) offers support to you and to the people around you.

6. Pregnancy, breastfeeding and children

Needs change in pregnancy, while breastfeeding and in childhood. The recipes on this site are not written for babies under 12 months. Ask your midwife, health visitor or GP before following general advice, and bring your questions to a consultation.

7. Recipes, allergens and FODMAPs

Recipes list their ingredients but not every allergen in every brand: read the labels. A Low-FODMAP tag refers to the portion given in the recipe and to the strict phase of the diet, which is meant to be short and supervised, not followed for life.

8. No promised results

People’s bodies, medicines and lives differ. Durations such as “usually 6–8 weeks” describe how long the work typically takes, not a guaranteed outcome. Nobody can promise a particular weight, blood result or symptom change, and we don’t.

9. Testimonials

The stories on this site describe one person’s own experience, with their permission and with first names changed. They are not evidence that the same change will work for you.

10. Questions

If something here is unclear or seems to apply to you, write before acting on it: Chard Nutrition, Studio 4, 27 Halden Row, London E8 · 020 7946 0381 · hello@chardnutrition.example.