About Glenn Cardwell
Glenn Cardwell BSc, Grad Dip Diet, Grad Dip App Sc, APD Sports Dietitian, Nutrition Consultant & Professional Speaker
Glenn is an Accredited Practising Dietitian with 32 years in clinical and public health nutrition, including 10 years as consultant dietitian to the National Heart Foundation and five years at the Children's Hospital in Sydney. He currently runs his own nutrition consultancy company, Nutrition Impact Pty Ltd, consulting to the food industry to assist with food labels, product development, research and nutrition education.
He is an award winning professional speaker and has spoken on nutrition throughout Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, India, South Africa, Spain and Britain. He lectured in sports nutrition at Edith Cowan University for four years and has been a long-standing guest lecturer at Curtin University. He was the sports nutrition adviser to the West Coast Eagles (Australian Football League) for 14 years. In 2002, he was very fortunate to accompany Brett Lee, Australian fast bowler, to Chicago to conduct sweat and fitness studies. He was the sports dietitian with the Western Force (Rugby Super 14)for their first two seasons.
Glenn produced two books for the Heart Foundation and has written four independent books, Diet Addiction, Gold Medal Nutrition (4th edition), Getting Kids to Eat Well and the Top Blokes Food Manual.
He frequently appears on TV and radio and the West Australian, Sunday Times, Business Directions and Good Medicine magazine have all featured many of his nutrition articles.
Glenn has the following qualifications and awards:
- Bachelor of Science (Biochemistry), Adelaide University 1977
- Graduate Diploma Dietetics, Curtin University 1979
- Graduate Diploma Applied Science (Media Studies), Edith Cowan University 1991
- Sports Nutrition, Australian Institute of Sport 1992
- Accredited Practising Dietitian
- Accredited Nutritionist
- Western Australian Professional Speaker of the Year 2003
- Life member, Nutrition Australia, for services to nutrition education (2003)
He's worth listening to if only because he believes that chocolate and red wine are essential food groups.
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