Amanda Ursell

Amanda Ursell is a registered nutritionist with a postgraduate diploma in dietetics.

She is a member of The British Dietetic Association, The Guild of Food Writers and is a Visiting Fellow of both The Royal Society of Medicine and Oxford Brookes University where she lectures on corporate nutrition and nutrition in the media.

Amanda is a winner of the 2019 Health and Vitality Special Achievement Honours and has also received HFMA Writer of The Year Award and has twice been voted the most influential health professional in the UK.

For nearly two decades, Amanda has worked for The Sun newspaper advising and writing on nutrition.

Amanda has also provided columns for The Los Angeles Times, The Sunday Times, The Times, The Daily Mail, The Evening Standard and The Daily Telegraph.

She has contributed to many other newspapers and magazines, is the author of numerous books and has made many appearances on both television and radio. Most recent of these are The Secret Lives Of Slim People, which she also devised, and Tricks Of The Restaurant Trade as both contributor and consultant – both for Channel 4.

In the past, Amanda has presented many TV shows including five episodes of Tonight With Trevor McDonald, three episodes of the BBC’s Moments Of Genius, twelve years on GMTV’s Inch Loss Island strand, four series of Food File for Channel 4, The Diet Show on Living and many more.

Nutritionist Motivational Speaker

As a keynote speaker, Amanda Ursell has delivered corporate nutrition workshops and presentations to a diverse range of companies including The Body Shop, Standard Chartered Bank, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Halfords, Investec, CH & Co and Gatwick Airport.

Nutrition and Immunity speech:

• What is your ‘immune system’?
• Which nutrients does it depend on to work optimally?
• How likely are you to be low in any of these and how do we improve our intakes?
• What impact does body weight, age and inflammation have on immunity?
• Ultimately how can what we eat and drink improve resilience to infections?

Amanda will address these and other questions during a 30-minute presentation, which uses current, evidence-based information to help attendees comprehend the link between immunity and nutrition.

Including practical tips on how to put the information learnt into day-to-day action, employees will learn how to optimise their nutrition and immunity which in turn, impacts not just on their physical but also mental wellbeing in the months ahead.

Diet and Mental Wellbeing Speech:

Can what, when and how we eat affect:

• Levels of stress?
• Ability to focus and concentrate?
• The preventing and management of low mood?
• Help in the management of anxiety and depression?
• Improve energy levels?
• Encourage better sleep patterns?
• Affect hunger, appetite and thus body weight

Amanda will address these and other questions during a 30-minute presentation, which use evidence-based information and advice providing fascinating insights into how the foods and drinks we consume and when we do so impact profoundly and how we feel and function both in and outside of the workplace.

Both presentations are followed by a 30-minute question and answer session to help consolidate learning.