Catherine Blackwood is a Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) registered Dietitian and member of the British Dietetic Association. She holds a Master's degree in Clinical Nutrition from the University of Surrey and has spent 12 years working across NHS acute and community settings. She currently leads outpatient nutrition services at a major hospital trust, specialising in metabolic health, weight management, and therapeutic dietary interventions.
Catherine Blackwood completed her undergraduate degree in Nutrition and Dietetics at Leeds Beckett University before obtaining her Master's in Clinical Nutrition from the University of Surrey, where she specialised in metabolic disorders and therapeutic dietary interventions. Her career has spanned multiple NHS settings, from acute hospital wards managing complex nutritional support to community clinics addressing long-term condition management through diet modification. Catherine spent four years working within a specialist diabetes and endocrinology unit, developing expertise in insulin resistance, pre-diabetes reversal, and the nutritional management of metabolic syndrome. She is trained in advanced body composition analysis, understands the limitations of standard dietary assessment tools, and can distinguish between evidence-based interventions and nutritional pseudoscience that wastes patients' money. Catherine now leads an outpatient nutrition service, supervising junior dietitians while maintaining her own clinical caseload of complex patients requiring personalised dietary strategies. She writes to counter the overwhelming misinformation in the nutrition space, providing guidance grounded in peer-reviewed research and clinical experience rather than celebrity endorsements or supplement industry marketing. Her work references SACN guidelines, NICE nutritional recommendations, and the practical challenges of implementing dietary changes within real family budgets and lifestyles. Catherine is passionate about helping patients understand that effective nutrition is personalised, sustainable, and based on individual metabolic responses rather than generic diet plans.