Andrea Jacobs – Dietitian

BSc in Dietetics (Hons) (UWC)

Andrea Jacobs obtained her Bachelor of Science Degree in Dietetics in 2011, from the University of the Western Cape. She completed her community service year at Uitenhage Provincial Hospital, in the Eastern Cape, in 2012. She became permanent staff at Uitenhage Provincial Hospital for another year before returning home to Cape Town in 2013. 

Since then, Andrea has gained experience working at different private practices and hospitals around Cape Town.

Andrea believes that the food choices we make, could either heal or cause damage to our bodies. It is for this reason that she is passionate about delivering the proper nutritional information to her clients, treating every client as an individual.

Treating both children and adults, Andrea assists clients with reaching their nutrition goals, for a healthy lifestyle.

She believes in educating clients so that they may have more control over implementing healthy food choices into their daily lives.

Andrea is a clinical and private practicing dietitian who works in a hospital and private practice setting.

Andrea decided on a career in dietetics, when a family member had been diagnosed with diabetes and found it interesting how food played a vital role in the management of this lifestyle disease.

Services offered:

• Weight Management: Weight gain / Weight loss / Maintaining goal weight
• Eating well for Gut Health: Constipation / Diarrhoea / inflammatory bowel disease
• Diseases of Lifestyle: Insulin Resistance / Diabetes / Cholesterol / Hypertension
• Sport Nutrition
• PCOS