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Haleh
Moravej is the nutrition consultant and eating disorder specialist
based at Claremont Hospital. Haleh first graduated with a degree
in Biomedical Sciences and she was most interested in the role
that our diets play in the health of the mind and body. This interest
developed in her years working on her masters in medical science
working with weight watchers ltd looking at the effects of carbohydrates
on mood and later working on her PhD at St George's Hospital on
the psychobiology of eating disorders and gastrointestinal problems
(IBS) connected to cortisol levels in chronic stress.
Haleh
Moravej is also an associate senior lecturer in nutrition at Manchester
Metropolitan University, where she is passionate about lecturing
and sharing her practical knowledge of nutrition with her students
and continues her research activity in her specialist subject
by supervising various nutrition projects and working on healthy
school meal designs in partnership with Manchester Council in
her practical side of her teaching. She has attended and presented
at a variety of obesity, eating disorders and nutrition conferences.
Haleh
has written various nutrition articles for national newspapers
and has worked as the nutrition expert with Real Radio, Calendar
News in Sheffield and BBC health journalists in Manchester. She
has worked on various community based obesity and eating disorder
projects both for adults and children.
She
is an active member of the Nutrition Society, Obesity Forum, Association
of Study of obesity, Eating Disorder Association and the American
Academy of Eating Disorders and Men's Health Forum.
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