Intrepid Dietitian

About me

My name is Vicki Fischer. I am a registered dietitian living in South Africa. I was blessed enough to have been placed at a small, rural hospital in the Drakensberg mountains for my community service year. This was where my love for hiking, exploring and adventure began. Through a series of hikes, with gradually increased difficulty, I managed to overcome my fear of heights and reach peaks and beautiful places I never thought were possible. My passion for nutrition and overcoming fear brought me to the conception of this web page. It is dedicated to my passion: helping people overcome their fears around nutrition (and life in general) through providing them with science-based information.

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I firmly believe that fear and health cannot co-exist. I have seen an increasing number of friends and family becoming intensely fearful of eating certain foods. This is mostly attributed to the "clean" eating movement that has taken social media by storm recently.

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So what can we believe and what food really is healthy? I will be taking one nutrition topic at a time, delving deep into studies related to that topic, then writing blog posts on what I have discovered.

Join me on my journey as I explore the treacherous world of nutrition and unravel the many nutrition claims, diets and fads out there.