{"id":5560,"date":"2016-07-29T09:00:24","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T08:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bantuat.org\/?p=5560"},"modified":"2018-09-18T14:13:07","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T13:13:07","slug":"tiffany-smith-centre-for-nutrition-education-lifestyle-management-cnelm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/tiffany-smith-centre-for-nutrition-education-lifestyle-management-cnelm\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiffany Smith, Centre for Nutrition Education & Lifestyle Management (CNELM)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"tiffany\"All my life I have been passionate about health, food and travel. \u00a0At 10 I wanted to\u00a0be a doctor, but developed an unfortunate habit of fainting at the sight of needles! When I left\u00a0school after A levels, I didn’t go on to study at university as I realised I was too squeamish to\u00a0be a doctor and there wasn’t anything else I wanted to study. So, I trained as a croupier and\u00a0worked in the top casinos in London. It was great fun, a young profession with a great social\u00a0life but also great travel opportunities. I worked on a cruise liner in the Caribbean, in the\u00a0South of France, Paris, Turkey, Argentina, Mauritius, Malaysia and Greece all expenses paid!<\/p>\n

Along the way I met my husband, with whom I travelled working together. \u00a0As the casino\u00a0industry waned, we decided to return to France and\u00a0bought a small village hotel restaurant from receivers in the Dordogne. We renovated and\u00a0revived it and hired a chef with whom I worked with in the kitchen, picking up pro cooking skills,\u00a0until he left 4 years later and I took control of the kitchen. While I enjoyed cheffing, the hotel\u00a0part was another matter, and we sold up after 7 years and bought another run down\u00a0restaurant to renovate in a small mountain spa town in the Pyrenees near Perpignan.<\/p>\n

A\u00a0lightbulb moment happened about 4 years ago when I saw the Chanel 4 program ‘The Food\u00a0Hospital’ and all my worlds collided. I had never even heard of the profession of dietician but\u00a0the whole focus on the role of food in health seemed perfectly logical to me. I knew where my\u00a0future lay. \u00a0Cheffing is a hard profession and not one I want to get old doing, so moving into\u00a0nutrition seems a perfectly natural extension of what I already do. I did set out on my study\u00a0path wanting to be a dietician and did my science foundation with the OU. However, I have\u00a0discovered the functional approach with CNELM, and am not only enjoying the student\u00a0experience but looking forward to seeing how my career in nutrition evolves.<\/p>\n

Tiffany Smith\u00a0is a 2nd\u00a0year student on the Nutritional Science BSc at CNELM. \u00a0If you’d like to write a story for the Student Spotlight or become a part of our Student Network Team, we’d love to hear from you, please email us at students@bant.org.uk.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

All my life I have been passionate about health, food and travel. \u00a0At 10 I wanted to\u00a0be a doctor, but developed an unfortunate habit of fainting at the sight of needles! When I left\u00a0school after A levels, I didn’t go on to study at university as I realised I was too squeamish to\u00a0be a doctor and there wasn’t anything else I wanted to study. So, I trained as a croupier and\u00a0worked in the top casinos in London. It was great fun, a young profession with a great social\u00a0life but also…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5646,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"table_tags":[],"class_list":["post-5560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spotlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5560"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/media\/5646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5560"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=5560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}