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Alex Bell APD, RD, CEDC-D

Accredited Practising Dietitian and Accredited Sports Dietitian

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BIO

Alex Bell has always had a passion for sport and exercise. Competing to a national level in Tennis as a juniorbefore going to America to play in the NCAA Collegiate system. Her participation in sport fuelled her interest in nutrition, not just for performance, but also to the challengestraining schedules and pressure to achieve can have on one’s ability to fuel adequately and recover well.

Alex’s philosophy is one that focuses on the athlete’s overall health. She aims to support athletes with theirnutrition goals to support not just performance, but their overall health and relationship with food. Alex continues to uphold an active lifestyle. Her main sports of competition and participation are tennis andlong distance running, however, loves to watch and try any sports. She has completed many half and fullmarathons over the years including the original marathon from Marathon to Athens. Past sports Alex has competed in include AFL, netball and swimming. This included playing for Australia'sspirit team in the ANZAC day AFL game in Villers Bretonneux, France.
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SPECIALIST AREAS

Sport nutrition

High intensity intermittent sports

Young athletes

Disordered eating, eating disorders, LEA and REDS

2024 – Present

Senior Dietitian

Austin Hospital

Australia

2024 – Present

Senior Dietitian

Another Private Practice for sport nutrition

Australia

2022 – 2024

Sport Dietitian

Enfi eld Town Ladies Football First Team

London, UK

2019 – 2024

Senior Specialist Dietitian

CAMHS Community Eating Disorders Service

London, UK

2023 – 2024

Specialist Freelance Dietitian

TCN clinic

London, UK

2018 – 2021

Paediatric Dietitian and mental health Dietitian

London, UK

2017 – 2018

Nutrition and Behaviour Change Lead

Weight Management Service

London, UK

2012 – 2014

Sport Nutrition Intern

Collegiate Sports

USA

Athlete playing tennis to Division 1 NCAA Collegiate level

Additional personal experience

USA

2022 – 2026

ISAK Level 1

Anthropometric Accreditation

2023

Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Eating Disorders (CBT-E)

Centre for Research on Eating Disorders at Oxford

2022

Family Therapy for Anorexia Nervosa (FT-AN)

Maudsley Centre for Child and Adolescent Eating Disorders

2019

Sequential Oral Sensory Approach to Feeding (SOS)

2016

MSc Sport and Exercise Nutrition

University of Westminster

2014

BSc Food and Nutrition

Drexel University

PUBLICATIONS

Mental health and nutrition considerations for active kids

Author | SDA Fuel blog | 2021

Spotlight food article

Author | SDA Re-Fuel magazine Spring Edition | 2022

Nutrition to improve cognitive function

Author | Australian Women’s Golf Magazine Spring Edition | 2023

Cutting Edge Psychiatry in Practise (CEPiP) journal focus edition on eating disorders

Co-Author

Eating disorders in young athletes

Presenter | UK Sport Exercise Nutrition (SENr BDA) annual Conference

Creator of eating content for the Body Image and Eating module

Website content and blog editor

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