Eat Better
Live Better
Proper nutrition is essential for maintaining good health and well-being. A balanced diet provides the necessary nutrients, vitamins, and minerals that our bodies require to function optimally. It supports the growth and development of children, helps adults maintain their health, and promotes healthy aging in older individuals.
Nutrition
Proper nutrition assists in the prevention of lifestyle diseases like diabetes, high blood pressure, cardiovascular diseases, gut disorders, kidney diseases, cancer related complications and arthritis.
Physical Activity
Regular physical activity helps us to improve sleep, maintain a healthy weight, manage stress and improve our quality of life. It’s recommended that you do at least 150 minutes of moderate aerobic activity per week.
Sleep
Good sleep habits support your mental and physical health and contributes to your overall quality of life. Sleep also plays a vital part in your weight loss journey.
“Your health is an
INVESTMENT
not an expense.”
WHY IS IT IMPORTANT TO SEE A REGISTERED DIETITIAN?
Nutritional information can be overwhelming to the public. People are often confused by conflicting and outdated research and information. A qualified dietitian is an expert in the field of nutrition and can assist you with individual science-based guidelines to improve your health and wellbeing.
Follow-up visits are very important to keep you accountable and plays a crucial role in ensuring success with weight loss.
About Me
Tanelle Schutte
RD (SA) BSC MED HONS, CLIN DIET (US)
I qualified at the University of Stellenbosch in 1999. After 3 years of student training and lecturing, I started to work at Groote Schuur Hospital where I was promoted to Principal Dietitian. At this state hospital, I gained valuable experience in critical care, trauma, surgery, cancer treatment, eating disorders and internal medicine. After starting a family, I resigned at the hospital and started to locum at Vergelegen Nutrition Centre, where my focus was on the nutritional management of renal patients, athletes (being an athlete myself) and disordered eating.
In 2009 I opened a private practice in the Strand, where I mainly helped overweight and insulin resistant patients. I joined the Vergelegen practice permanently in 2016 and was seeing both in-patients and out-patients up until 2019 when I started my own private practice in Swellendam.
Special Interests
WEIGHT MANAGEMENT • INSULIN RESISTANCE • DIABETES • CHOLESTEROL MANAGEMENT • HYPERTENSION • CANCER TREATMENT & RECOVERY • RENAL DISORDERS • SPORT NUTRITION • PREGNANCY & LACTATION • ADULT CRITICAL CARE & ICU • EATING DISORDERS
Mission Statement
My mission is to help patients improve their health and wellbeing with good, balanced nutrition, physical activity and lifestyle changes.
More about me
I live in Swellendam and am married to Wilhelm, a Town Planner, and the love of my life. I am blessed with three daughters. Motherhood is the most challenging and rewarding experience of my life. I received my first pair of running shoes when I was 12 years old and have loved running since then. I used to run marathons, but I now prefer trail running. Jessie, our border collie, has been my running partner for the last eight years. I love running with her in the mountains. I believe in balance: to be active, to eat healthy, to get sufficient sleep and sunlight and work hard on relationships.
*Disclaimer
This is a private practice. I do not submit claims to medical aids on behalf of patients. You are welcome to submit a claim on your own behalf after you’ve paid the consultation fee.