Ada Cheung

Registered Dietitian - Auckland

BSc (Human Nutrition), PGDipDiet, MPH, NZRD

Ada is a New Zealand Registered Dietitian and has over 20 years of experience. She has worked in a diversity of specialised areas, both with adults, children, and infants, in the different DHBs, Primary Health Organisation, and Pacific Heartbeat - The Heart Foundation. She was born in Hong Kong and came to New Zealand when she was 17 years old. She can read, write, and speak fluent Cantonese and Mandarin.

Ada has a strong passion for empowering people to live a healthy and meaningful life using a holistic approach. She supports people in creating sustainable lifestyle changes that improve their health and well-being. She empowers her clients to take control of their own health, meeting where they are at and supporting them to reach their own nutrition and wellness goals that matter to them. Her clients find her approach ‘practical, non-judgemental, encouraging, keeping them accountable and is talking at their level’.

Her specialties lie in weight management, lifestyle change and long-term health conditions. She supports clients using simple tools and ideas to help them make realistic and achievable changes that become their healthy habits.

Ada holds a Master’s Degree in Public Health because of her love of working in developing countries. She completed a Certification in Results Coaching in recent years as she believes in working on people’s mindset in creating consistent changes. She is also an OPTIFAST® VLCD™ Accredited Healthcare Professional and Cambridge Weight Plan Health Professional.

Outside of work, Ada enjoys cooking, reading, and going for walks. She likes learning new skills with her husband and daughter! She also loves spending time with her family and friends because connection is what she values.

 

Ada can help you with:

  • Weight concerns and lifestyle change - adults and children

  • Healthy eating advice - for adults and children including emotional eating, nutritional deficiencies, supporting neurodivergent individuals

  • Disordered eating

  • Diabetes (children and adults) - Type 1, Type 2 & GDM

  • Heart health including high blood pressure, high cholesterol

  • Lifestyle nutrition - vegetarianism, veganism,

  • Allergies - Coeliac disease

  • Infant and children’s nutrition - food aversions/fussy eating, starting solids, weight management

  • Nutrition to support rehabilitation and trauma - adults and children - traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, serious injury, pain management, wound healing, sensitive claims