Azmina Govindji RD MBDA
Schwartz expert is consultant nutritionist, registered dietitian, and best-selling author Azmina Govindji, who is currently a TV Nutritionist on BBC1's The One Show and Channel 5's The Wright Stuff. She is known for her lively personality and recently won a British Dietetic Association 2009 Roll of Honour Award for her voluntary work on the new recipe website www.theismaili.org/nutrition.
Azmina is working with the Department of Health on their Change4life initiative and with the British Heart Foundation on their FSA-funded Social Cooking Project. She was Chief Dietitian to Diabetes UK from 1987-1995 and still collaborates with the Charity on projects such as Healthy Eating for Diabetes and The Diabetes Weight Loss Diet with celebrity chef Antony Worrall Thompson.
She is a media spokesperson for the British Dietetic Association and Department of Health NHS Choices and has recently launched the NHS Choices supermarket Health Checker Tool to help people make healthier choices when shopping.
Azmina and her team of highly qualified nutrition consultants at Govindji Nutrition (www.govindjinutrition.com) provide contemporary solutions to the food industry, PR, advertising & marketing agencies, the media, healthcare professionals, and national organisations & charities. Their particular strengths include brand innovation & originating fresh angles for existing brands, media and communication, web-based initiatives, writing for lay and professional markets and delivering presentations.
Azmina and her team of highly qualified nutrition consultants at Govindji Nutrition (www.govindjinutrition.com) provide contemporary solutions to the food industry, PR, advertising & marketing agencies, the media, healthcare professionals, and national organisations & charities. Their particular strengths include brand innovation & originating fresh angles for existing brands, media and communication, web-based initiatives, writing for lay and professional markets and delivering presentations.
Azmina's philosophy is to provide efficient, credible and creative expertise using unique insights in the field of nutrition. She is passionate about cooking, especially about livening up dishes with herbs and spices to make them deliciously healthy. She has written over a dozen books including The Hot Body Plan, Healthy Indian Cooking for Diabetes, Weight Watchers Millennium Cookbook, and The Gi Plan, with behavioural expert Nina Puddefoot.
Azmina is the Nutrition Editor for Sweet magazine and also contributes to numerous other magazines such as Healthy, Health and Fitness, BBC Olive, Top Sante, Red, Grazia, Women's Fitness, You and Your Family and Saga. She is regularly quoted in the national press.
She is a skilled communicator and regularly delivers presentations at professional conferences such as The Westminster Food & Nutrition Forum and the Nutrition and Health Conference. She also appears as expert dietitian on healthy eating videos for NHS Choices and patent.co.uk, and works with national organisations such as the British Heart Foundation, Food Standards Agency, World Cancer Research Fund and Diabetes Research and Wellness Foundation.
In her spare time, Azmina enjoys travelling, theatre and having dinner parties that are sneakily healthy.